If I tell the truth, sire, who will guarantee that I shall not be more cruelly punished than if I keep silent?
Madame," replied De Mouy, "I am obliged to keep silent, and this duty must be very imperative for me not to have answered your majesty.
Rochefoucauld pulled me back, made me keep silent, and I plunged down into my seat more from anger against him than against the advocate.
He paid his wife to keep silent when he received his benefices; but when he dawned into greatness became much embarrassed with her.
The torrent was so impetuous that Pontchartrain had only to lower his head, keep silent, and let the waters pass.
The delegates of the club, with the municipal officers of Marseilles seated alongside of them, oblige them either to keep silent, or to utter what they dictate to them.
All the journals approve, palliate, or keep silent; nobody dares offer resistance.
Why should I keep silent about it and let you make yourself ridiculous by your boasting about that revered family of yours?
Keep silent, for the inspired priestesses are opening the temple of Artemis.
Keep silent, so that we may hear the better what she has to say.
Aeschylus, I beg you to keep silent; otherwise, besides these three iambics, there will be many more attacked.
I will read the confession, and when you know the truth, I want you all to keep silent about it, as Mark Frettlby is dead, and the publication of his crime can do no good to anyone.
At last I agreed to keep silent, and handed him a cheque for five thousand pounds, receiving in return the marriage certificate.
Vandeloup, whose subtle brain immediately saw that if Madame Midas was dead he could throw the blame on Kitty and thus get rid of her without endangering himself, agreed to keep silent, but made Jarper give up the bottle to him.
I take my chance of that; but I ask you to keep silent as to Gaston Vandeloup being Octave Braulard.
I implored her to keep silent, pointing out that no good could come of acquainting you with bygone evils; but she refused to listen to me, and left this office with the full intention of finding you out, and making her revelation.
Keep silent, sir, if you love me," he said, in a low tone.
But I do not speak, I am paid to keep silent; and when I am not paid, still I keep silent for my credit's sake.
Luther had promised to keep silent if his opponents would do the same, and had devoted himself to the study of the Scriptures.
Again I yielded to your name, I was prepared to keep silent, and even accepted as arbiter either the archbishop of Treves or the bishop of Naumburg.
Therefore, for what followed later Luther is not to blame; all the blame is Cajetan's, who did not suffer me to keep silent and to rest, as I then most earnestly asked him to do.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keep silent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
