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Example sentences for "silent and"

  • On the side-walks the police keep step with him, silent and fateful.

  • Word was sent to the office, while the workers went to their buckets and washed themselves, silent and melancholy as a funeral procession.

  • And the restless creatures in the "Ark" must perforce be silent and listen.

  • But Neil had no heart for anything, and seemed so silent and absent-minded that his mother whispered to him in an aside: "What ails you, Neil?

  • The little house was as silent and dark as ever, doors and shutters tightly closed.

  • Directly before her in the forest where the battle had been all was black, silent and impenetrable.

  • This newspaper story took the light out of their day and the smile from Berrie's lips, and the women entered the city silent and distressed in spite of the efforts of their young guide.

  • He was so silent and so kind of pleasant-looking I got leery of him.

  • A few large white clouds were drifting like snow-laden war-vessels from west to east, silent and solemn, and on the highest peaks a gray vapor was lightly clinging.

  • He furiously patted the knob of his stick with a twitching hand; and he stood there, with his eyes fixed on the body, silent and thoughtful.

  • Twenty minutes later, Waldemar returned and they sat down and dined together, opposite each other, silent and pensive.

  • Lupin sat long, silent and gloomy, under the obsession, no doubt, of the mysterious being.

  • When Napoleon appeared on the threshold, the groups dispersed, and the gentlemen placed themselves in line, silent and noiseless, along the wall opposite the emperor, seemingly at a loss whether they or the emperor should utter the first word.

  • Her eyes glanced in gratitude to the emperor, who softly laid his finger on his mouth, to admonish her to be silent and calm.

  • No one dared disturb him; his generals surrounded him, silent and gloomy.

  • She was his almost constant companion, silent and subtle at times, and with the inborn subtlety of women she defied his most skilful attempts to share her thoughts.

  • I hardly know how to answer you, because, as you know, Marion is so silent and secretive.

  • She had gone, but in the glimpse which he had of her face he read a little of the anguish which at that moment wrung her young heart, and happening at the same time to catch his sister's eye, he walked away, silent and uncomfortable.

  • If you come to me with the pride of a queen, if there be even one thought in you which tells you that you are bestowing a favor on a subject as you take him to your heart, then be silent and let me go hence.

  • She dropped her head upon her breast, and stood there, silent and thoughtful.

  • But as they thus rode along, silent and meditative, each occupied with his own thoughts, there came the assistance for which Thomas Seymour had prayed, fluttering along in the shape of a fly.

  • They stared across the water, silent and thoughtful, touched for a moment with the glamour of a dream.

  • A minute later she was staring into the glass, silent and absorbed, forgetful of Mrs Partridge, Chook, and her father.

  • Instead of evincing any surprise, she seemed to consider his extraordinary return quite natural, and remained as silent and discreet as usual.

  • He, who as a rule was so silent and discreet, now happened to be in an expansive mood, which made him look quite radiant.

  • When Pierre in his turn had seated himself near Don Vigilio, who, silent and discreet, had already taken a chair, Dario resumed in a louder voice the story which he had been relating to Celia.

  • If she heard a noise, she thought it was her brother's footstep, and when the house was perfectly silent and still, she feared the very silence itself.

  • Lord Ballindine walked to the window, and Martin Kelly and Doctor Colligan sat in distant parts of the room, with long faces, silent and solemn, breathing heavily.

  • During the whole of the previous evening she had sat silent and alone, pretending to read, although he had made two or three efforts to engage her in conversation.

  • She knew when to be silent and when to speak; when to merge her own individuality and when to make it felt.

  • He stood by the desk, silent and awkward, trying to fit his expectations to his knowledge.

  • Either his tongue or his resolution failed him, and for the instant he stood as silent and almost as ill at ease as his companion.

  • I know Bernard must have come last night, as he said he would, and that is what has made papa seem so silent and angry.

  • He stopped a moment as he reached the high desk, and stood there, silent and thoughtful.

  • It was evident his hours were numbered, and they all gathered round, silent and tearful, to see the old man die.

  • She stood silent for a moment as if she had received a blow--silent and dismayed.

  • When the troop moved forward, I went with them, silent and apathetic.

  • I stood, silent and stupefied, waiting to hear more.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "silent and" 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:
    cups water; dear baron; friend from; good voice; long tyme; longer doubted; milk should; more abundant; never once; objective truth; please take; said grannie; silent and; silent prayer; silently corrected; speak evil; special virtue; stipules small; three small; tons gross; turned loose; what little; white enamel; who had