I kept silence, and paid no heed to what he was saying; nay, indeed, I had turned my back on him.
I kept silence, and the gentlemen of his Excellencys suite looked hard at Bandinello, tittering among themselves about the speech I had made in the room above.
I then, not caring to deprive them of so eminent a reputation, kept silence, and admired them with mute stupefaction.
And they brought two malefactors and crucified between them the Lord; but he kept silence, as feeling no pain.
And they brought two malefactors and crucified between them the Lord; but he kept silence as feeling no pain.
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
When the three Gorgons saw I was interested, their tears, complaints, and invectives began again with renewed vigor, while I kept silence as much as to say that they were in the right.
I waited for a reply, but perceiving that the injured party kept silence (a circumstance which seemed to me a good omen) I went on.
I held my tongue, and when they asked Lubomirski he replied that as I kept silence it was his duty to do the same.
Laura, the countess's mother, only knew her native Italian, and so kept silence.
As he kept silence, Freeborn's zeal burnt out, and there was a break in the conversation.
Charles was very much hurt; the more so, because he had nothing to say; he kept silence.
Mrs. Force did not attempt to converse, and Miss Meeke, chilled by the social coldness around her, kept silence.
But Le kept silence, looking as grim as the Sphinx.
She suppressed the exclamation, sent back the strong objection to hide in her bosom among other heavy secrets there, and--kept silence.
He kept silence as they walked rapidly towards Paradise, and Bryce was silent, too.
Now I had not the least idea that the two men were close at hand, nor that they had had any hand in his death, and so I kept silence, and let him be buried under the name he had taken--John Braden.
I was certain that no one but myself knew that Braden had been to the surgery door--therefore, I thought that if I kept silence, his calling there would never be known.
If I kept silence, they taxed me with contempt and perverseness; if I knew anything without telling it, that was a crime; if I told it, then they said I had forged it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kept silence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
