Sentence examples for started to silence from inspiring English sources

"When we failed to get an agreement with [the group's former leader, killed by a US drone strike in 2014, Ahmed Abdi] Godane and his inner circle, they started to silence all opposition.

After scoring only once in nine Champions League games during his inaugural season in Germany, he started to silence any questions over his ability to step up in class with three goals in Dortmund's first three group games this season.

"But when it's about bombarding people who are not in public life with aggressive abuse, that's where it becomes a problem, if it starts to silence people.

With just one rookie - Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts - in their ranks, the European side are the more experienced of the two, and Olazabal will hope that his team can get off to the sort of start to silence the partisan home crowds.

That means being determined and cohesive defensively, killing penalties well — they've killed 21 of 22 so far — and getting a strong enough start to silence the lively Nashville crowd.

"You start to listen to silence " he says, "and you begin to have the capacity to do what you feel is right".  .

Donelson started to speak but I silenced him as I watched with whirling mind, filled with the sight and listening now to the mare's hooves beating with measured gait through the bright suspense of the afternoon — when suddenly a little boy in blue overalls exploded from between two small houses across the street and ran after the horseman, propelled by an explosion of joy.

She sat at her desk and, after a brief period of silence, started to cut up one of the apples in her hand.

Then, unprompted, the boy broke his silence and started to recite the alphabet -- in English.

You describe the way Richter would pause before he started to play, drawing out the silence in the auditorium as the audience waits.

"As I became more familiar with silence, I started to love it.