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Example sentences for "gloomy silence"

  • At a little distance from the car-house the strikers again drew together and stood mostly in gloomy silence, their eyes ever turning toward the closed doors of the great building before them.

  • Dick had come in soon after his parents, and had listened in gloomy silence to the story of the children.

  • Dick longed to ask if she knew anything about Tode, but his tongue refused to utter the words and he tumbled into bed in gloomy silence.

  • The belated dinner, passed off in gloomy silence, interrupted only by the sighs of women and a smothered sob from the children, who had been forbidden to laugh and chatter.

  • It never was long, for it was scanty and passed in gloomy silence, interrupted only by quarrelling and the biting remarks of the father of the family.

  • The peasants whose task it was to unload the carts preserved a gloomy silence.

  • The Emperor heard them in gloomy silence, and declared that he would judge for himself in the morning.

  • The spectators looked on their departure in gloomy silence: and King Joseph published the following proclamation; "Citizens of Paris!

  • The soldiers moved on, while under the eye of Napoleon, in gloomy silence: wherever he was not present, they set every rule of discipline at nought, and were guilty of the most frightful excesses.

  • Some moments after, while the two companions sat in gloomy silence, they heard the sound of oars striking the water.

  • The officer reprimanded him sharply, and still the Moor sat in gloomy silence.

  • Reine preserved a gloomy silence, and did not deign even to look at her captor.

  • But as soon as the hour of rest arrived, the Moor crossed his vigorous arms, bowed his head on his breast, and thus passed the hours in which his comrades tried to forget their captivity, in gloomy silence.

  • She thought it was an omen of her own fate, and watched it successively vanish and return, in gloomy silence, which was at length interrupted by Bertrand.

  • They rode across the plain in gloomy silence.

  • The Cheyennes watched him in gloomy silence.

  • After they had picketed the ponies they sat in gloomy silence, staring thoughtfully into the night.

  • Moses assented in gloomy silence, and they walked on together the way that they had so often taken laughing and chatting.

  • He rose and offered his hand to Moses, who took it in gloomy silence, without a smile or word.

  • Newman's account of what had transpired was listened to in gloomy silence.

  • Owen paused and a gloomy silence followed, but suddenly Crass brightened up.

  • Chapter 22 The Phrenologist The following morning--Saturday--the men went about their work in gloomy silence; there were but few attempts at conversation and no jests or singing.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gloomy silence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    annual interest; brought before; could desire; damp places; deal with; deeply religious; free niggers; gloomy silence; keep close; large district; long night; looking from; moderate breeze; name written; often applied; other liquid; parallel columns; poor mistress; quick succession; torpedo boat; when treating; without her