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Example sentences for "perfect silence"

  • This penniless woman was supposed to be so dependent on every one about her, that she seemed doomed to perfect silence.

  • On the very day after the funeral, the friar called again on the lawyer, who received him in perfect silence.

  • They went back to the Rue de Normandie in perfect silence; that sudden flash of joy had thrown a light on the extent of the disease which was consuming Pons.

  • Our assailants, having tried to shake our nerves by their shrieks and showers of arrows, appeared to retire, and again the whole wood was wrapped in perfect silence.

  • Sometimes as I was working away I fancied that I head the voices of my friends calling to me, but when I stopped there was again a perfect silence.

  • Our Indian allies wanted to reply to the war-whoops of our foes, but we judged that as they outnumbered us, we should be much more likely to awe them if we remained in perfect silence.

  • There was an interval of perfect silence then, save that a murmur came from below, and this encouraged me, for I felt that I must be invisible in the darkness, or else Jarette would have had me down.

  • D'Aulney's visit to him was not repeated, and his solitude remained unbroken, except by the person who brought him food, and who generally performed his office in perfect silence.

  • He, however, released her, on finding her consciousness fully restored, and removing to a little distance, remained standing in perfect silence.

  • The report sounded loud, and was followed once more by perfect silence.

  • He literally raged at the disputants, whose angry shouts died out rapidly, to be succeeded by perfect silence; and then the manager turned from the window, with his face looking very red and hot, and took his place again.

  • As she spoke, the heavy oak door fell to the ground, and a perfect silence succeeded to the late din.

  • Nearer and nearer he drew, looking cautiously about and moving in perfect silence.

  • After they had gone along for some time in perfect silence, they came to a narrow gateway.

  • For a long time they paced back and forth in perfect silence.

  • She stepped up, took it down from the nail on the wall, and examined it in perfect silence.

  • All this is to be done in perfect silence.

  • This proposition was a most acceptable one, and in a very short time a perfect silence reigned in the camp.

  • Yet the unity was complete; there is no companionship so real as that which admits of perfect silence.

  • Throckmorton, in perfect silence, helped the ladies into the carriage.

  • Tavannes made fun of the two Italians, who were then left alone in the midst of perfect silence in a place where they had only the sky above them and the cats for listeners.

  • Thus the lovers sat for some little time in perfect silence, in the mood when every thought is a wound, when the clouds of a mental storm hide even the remembrance of past happiness.

  • Moreover, when such ideas are ours, looking up in perfect silence at the stars is more impressive than it ever was before.

  • Again, a lady came in with her baby, and he at once singled out the infant as his enemy, fixing a very wicked glance on it, but in perfect silence.

  • Should one put a hand down to take him, as seemingly could be done easily, he will slip out from under it, drop to the ground, and disappear, in perfect silence.

  • The Hindus also received this information in perfect silence.

  • Toward eight o'clock the conch-horn blew; our riflemen halted and deployed in perfect silence, facing the unseen works on the wooded ridge ahead.

  • As his ringing voice subsided, there fell a perfect silence, then a very roar of cheering filled it, and the hemlock rafters rang.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perfect 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:
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