Sentence examples for silence room from inspiring English sources

Sean O'Brien's The Silence Room is published by Comma Press.

This intense engagement with words, much in evidence in The Silence Room, is disappointingly infrequent in Afterlife.

Last winter saw The Silence Room, a volume of short stories set mainly in an eerily drenched Newcastle upon Tyne, and now his first novel follows.

Afterlife by Sean O'Brien 304pp, Picador, £14.99 Buy Afterlife at the Guardian bookshop The Silence Room by Sean O'Brien 202pp, Comma Press, £7.95 Buy The Silence Room at the Guardian bookshop Sean O'Brien has enjoyed a prolific career, mainly as a poet and critic.

Its output tends to be explicitly city related, and while The Silence Room cannot entirely be subtitled "The Book of Newcastle", O'Brien does muscular justice to this historic city, a gateway to other worlds: "the bridges and the river that ran darkly beneath them, of the river's mouth and the vast satisfactory distances beyond, from here to either pole and on to Singapore and Valparaíso".

If you want to silence a room of executives, try this small trick.

(Silence in room) Let's have some enthusiasm for these answers!

Once we take the floor, we can silence a room.

After three days of near silence, the room erupted in applause.

I have seen his words silence a room to total stillness when read aloud more than a few times.

The sound of smashing glass silenced the room.