Sentence examples for silent child from inspiring English sources

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The town doctor is stalked by a silent child who is revealed, in the final frames, to be implicated in the original crash.

"The Silent Child," which won for Best Live-Action Short, is a British production, and its leading actress bears the name — a great movie-star name — of Maisie Sly.

They soon wearied of the sullen, silent child and sent us back to Grandmother Henderson in Arkansas, where we lived quietly and smoothly within my grandmother's care and under my uncle's watchful eye.

It's good to see a play with teenage characters who can think and say something other than, "like, y'know?" Any momentum these two build up, though, is undercut by a recurrent amateurish device in which a silent child (Maya Simkowitz) materializes and, seen only by Elly, dances.

Before his diagnosis, when we were just a family of three, suffering in our confusion over this eccentric, silent child (who did nothing that the childhood books talked about), I spent many hours repeating simple lessons to him about how things worked, what not to touch, what to say.

Also worth noting: Indiegogo got a shoutout tonight when The Silent Child (which was crowdfunded on the site) won for best live action short.

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The porter, Amm Samir, and his silent children carried two huge speakers up the stairs.

The author, who has been working with silent children for 15 years, follows the progress of six of them, each confronting a different obstacle.

Every card declined.You slid between the stalls and you were gone though I scoured the field for hours, hoping to find you sat with "the silent children of the fair"or some such nonsense, though I always knew you'd taken another hand, the way kids do,not looking up.

The key to his unchecked lifetime of sexual abuse was his ability to con his way into the hearts of the nation, blatantly threatening those who dared challenge him, and leaving in his wake hundreds of damaged but crucially silent children and young people.

Seaside without the sea... Silent children, strangled by the hoods of their anoraks, heads down.

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