Sentence examples for sit mute from inspiring English sources

Mannequins stare blankly from beneath polka-dotted parasols, or sit mute beneath baroque chandeliers.

While seven members of the shadow cabinet were given prominent speaking slots, Grayling had to sit mute.

Now they sit mute across the table from White House negotiators, refusing to expose themselves by saying what Medicare cuts they actually want to make, and demanding that Democrats go first.

A six-term senator with an ego the size of a brontosaurus will sit mute, in apparent fascination, while the heir to an oil fortune reveals his plan to reduce crime by chopping off the fingers of shoplifters.

But for the last two weeks he has had to sit mute in federal court here, listening to prosecutors portray him as Mister Big, running a racketeering operation from the best office in City Hall.

Mom sat mute in the chair as Daria held me.

(Time reported that they "sat mute and unblinking as dummies in a waxworks").

The heat was overpowering, and the home crowd sat mute in anxiety.

Gawking courtiers crowd together, pushing toward the right where the Virgin sits mute in a pavilion.

Grace sat mute and shamed, but lovely, flushed from the cooking.

They "stopped eating, sat mute and motionless in corners, and expired".