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Example sentences for "saying nothing"

  • I suffered her to do so, saying nothing, but smiling at her, while the colour came brightly into her face as she wrought.

  • Then we rode hard for the lives of all who were in the town, and as I went I thought also that we rode to the death of the brave, honest jarl who was beside me, saying nothing, but never letting his horse falter.

  • Kolgrim took these off and gave them to me, and then he went to the drum and dashed it on a stone and broke it, saying nothing.

  • The teeth of the young woman were few in number and rather black; and Barbara could only stand there saying nothing, as if her body had been deserted between the sunlight and this dim red passage, which led to-what?

  • Lord Valleys, especially moved, went up to his daughter, and stood with her in that dark corner, saying nothing, but gently stroking her hand.

  • I followed him back to our post, he saying nothing at all on the way and I likewise silent.

  • He cocked his head down at me--I saying nothing at all.

  • I showed him the evening star where it shone in the sky, and he watched it brighten, saying nothing at all.

  • She sank back into her chair saying nothing.

  • A thousand times she could have been justified in saying nothing; but had she done so she would have been a different woman.

  • For some moments they stood there, leaning on the railing, saying nothing, watching some dull, dark figures of men who were moving about on the little island that belongs to the Thames Conservancy.

  • For the moment, she was silent, saying nothing; but there was no moaning of wounded vanity in the heart of her.

  • She colored a little and went by him, saying nothing, lest she might say too much.

  • He had no horse, and set off afoot to see his mother at Merion, saying nothing of his intention to Mrs. Swanwick.

  • He folded his arms across his breast after a while and listened, saying nothing.

  • He passed oil, and King followed him, saying nothing.

  • The pleasant deportment and improved manners of the young ladies and gentlemen of the school, saying nothing of their astonishing advancement in the different departments of literature, was a cause of the highest gratification.

  • But now, she goes by, saying nothing, or at most with a word or so that he is working himself to death.

  • Isak put up with it for two years, saying nothing.

  • But he could not stand there for ever, in the middle of the room, saying nothing.

  • Okanagan, saying nothing, dropped on hands and knees, and while Alton groaned drew the bands tighter about the shattered cedar-bark.

  • His hand also appeared to tremble slightly when, saying nothing, he passed the telegram across to her.

  • For a time she bustled round him, with all her vexation gone, saying nothing of his sederunt with her brothers.

  • The General stood at his shoulder, saying nothing, but looking at Gilian from under his pent brows.

  • Not of John the Captain, for he is different, with a tongue that goes, but I'm frightened when the General and the Cornal sit and look at me saying nothing because I am a woman.

  • I do not like people to sit looking at me saying nothing," said Gilian, "because when I sit and look at people without saying anything I am reading them far in.

  • And I kept it, saying nothing to anybody.

  • Though not much inclined to reticence in general, she observed it now, saying nothing to Amilly.

  • Sanford sat down in the nearest seat, and looked earnestly at his Chief, saying nothing.

  • For many moments Alan Warburton sat with his head bowed, and his face pale and troubled, saying nothing.

  • She gazed, and left the bedroom, saying nothing, and wandered elsewhere.

  • She looked up at him, saying nothing, and he savoured the intelligence of her weary, fine, alert, comprehending face.

  • Christine gazed, saying nothing, and wandered again to the drawing-room floor, while G.

  • Mrs. Decker in her kitchen, hovered between the door and the window, peering out into the lovely night, saying nothing, but her heart throbbing so with anxiety about her boy that she could not lay her tired body away.

  • Then came a visit to the back yard in search of chips; both children following close at her heels, saying nothing, but watching every movement with wide-open wondering eyes.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saying nothing" 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:
    about dark; argument from; black spot; both ships; different countries; distinct vision; doubt not; experience goes; fifth parallel; first impulse; goes back; independent command; long conversation; mental alienation; revealed truth; saying anything; saying good; saying something; saying that; saying thus; saying unto; short pause; still visible; then return; uniform standard; with this