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Example sentences for "remain silent"

  • Monsieur, however, knew the people he had to deal with too well, and was naturally too polite to remain silent, and he accordingly saluted them.

  • The keenest wit has to remain silent and to take refuge in kisses.

  • It is better to remain silent than to make strangers laugh by odd expressions and absurd equivocations.

  • If your excellency is satisfied of the truth of the story, my duty is to remain silent.

  • You are certainly bound not to know, or to pretend not to know the real cause, but you must acknowledge that my duty is to remain silent.

  • The law gives me the right to remain silent in any event.

  • We know how false are all virtuous words with which they condemn us, but we remain silent.

  • And with all that they expect you to remain silent!

  • These parties conceal themselves at their respective stations, remain silent, and wait for the signal from the bugle, which is to be given at the hour of daybreak.

  • I was on the point of changing my tirade into the apostrophic form, and at the same time ordering the man out of my sight, when something in his look influenced me to remain silent.

  • The hunters, influenced by a mysterious curiosity, remain silent, or speak only in low mutterings.

  • True, I do know, but at present Your Excellency must excuse me if I remain silent.

  • Further, we may, if we remain silent, be able to obtain more information from Her Highness as to the identity of the person into whose hands the plans fell.

  • A gleam of common-sense had enabled him to control his indignation, and to remain silent.

  • Costeclar,--would she have strength enough to remain silent?

  • Fortin made to remain silent gave, better than any thing else, an idea of the terror with which the commissary inspired her.

  • Remain silent while I talk with your friends.

  • Jimmie was primed for another outbreak of conversation, but Ned caught him by the arm and ordered him to remain silent.

  • Ned motioned to the boy to remain silent.

  • As for any reward—or rather bribe, to induce me to remain silent, none is necessary.

  • But the case is too serious to allow me to remain silent.

  • For your sake more than for mine it is better that I remain silent.

  • When, however, the armistice went into effect and the time arrived for completing the personnel of the American Commission, I determined that I ought not to remain silent.

  • And do you still advise them to remain silent?

  • Segmuller motioned to him to remain silent.

  • It would be better to remain silent, and to work and wait for success.

  • Who can tell me what powerful interest induces her to remain silent?

  • He knew how to remain silent as well as how to be loquacious and he could radiate an unspoken sympathy.

  • He bit his lip and forced himself to remain silent for a moment, then he spoke gently.


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