Sentence examples for silence set from inspiring English sources

But, five years after his imprisonment, silence set in.

And the silence set off a public debate between mayors in this county on the border of Chicago.

But as the game went on, and the goals went in, the mood turned to disbelief, and then silence set in.

Editors used to engage in strategic silence – set agendas, omit extremist ideas and manage voices – without knowing they were doing so.

Rose Tremain's novel Music and Silence, set in the Danish court of Christian IV where Dowland was a well-paid musician, depicts him tellingly: "The man was all ambition and hatred, yet his ayres were as delicate as rain".

Harding is nominated for her third novel, Painter of Silence, set in postwar Romania, telling the story of Augustin, an artistically gifted deaf and mute man who turns up near death's door on the steps of a hospital.

Silence sets in when gulls veer away.

Instead, there was silence, setting off further speculation about a possible rift between this struggling city-state and Abu Dhabi, its oil-rich sister emirate.

Instead, there was a deafening silence, setting off further speculation about a possible rift between this struggling city-state and oil-rich Abu Dhabi.

The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in.

It was surprising to learn that the methylation of H3K36 by P. falciparum variant-silencing SET (PfSETvs) was critical for the repression of VAR genes in P. falciparum[ 39].