Sentence examples for speaking for weeks from inspiring English sources

His personal troubles continued: his son Walter died while overseas, his wife Maria White Lowell died in October 1853, his father became deaf, and his sister Rebecca was deteriorating mentally such that she often went without speaking for weeks.

The victim was unable to speak for weeks and had no memory of what happened.

His younger sister, who is ten, witnessed the beating and did not speak for weeks after.

When he played a mute in Darkly Moon, he didn't speak for weeks.

Mr. Page did not speak to analysts on the earnings conference call, however, because of an ailment that has left him unable to speak for weeks.

After a tracheotomy and reconstructive surgery, the recovery was quick but difficult, he said, because he could not speak for weeks.

And super PACs, eager to be seen during the N.F.L. playoff game on Saturday featuring the Denver Broncos' Tim Tebow, bought up slots that were spoken for weeks ago, paying premiums to knock advertisers like Hardee's, Jeep and the Ford Motor Company to later times.

Florens, in contrast, awakens a maternal instinct in Lina, and she embraces the girl as if she were long-lost kin: "A frightened, long-necked child who did not speak for weeks but when she did, her light, singsong voice was lovely to hear.

"I sobbed and apologized over and over, but we barely spoke for weeks," she says.

Wasserman Schultz exchanged acrimonious phone calls and emails with Messina and Woodhouse, after which she and Messina did not speak for weeks.

The president has spoken for weeks of the need to weaken and "ultimately destroy" the group, and the U.S. began targeting the group's strongholds in Syria with a barrage of bombings early Tuesday.