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Example sentences for "speechlessness"

Lexicographically close words:
speeches; speechifying; speechless; speechlesse; speechlessly; speechmaking; speed; speedboat; speede; speeded
  1. But it was the speechlessness of rage--of wild and uncontrollable fury.

  2. But Sheila Macklin's speechlessness arose through different thoughts from those of the Balls.

  3. Bartrow was not yet fit to measure swords of repartee with any one, least of all with Miss Van Vetter, and the quicksand of speechlessness engulfed him.

  4. But he sat stocklike and silent, letting her win through the speechlessness of it to the faltered reply.

  5. In her speechlessness tears actually rose to her eyes.

  6. As he said "good-bye" she turned her head, and the speechlessness of their farewell was deep with simple human passion.

  7. His bewilderment and speechlessness were a comic display, tragic to him.

  8. He endured some minutes of total speechlessness at this pace, and abruptly said adieu and turned back.

  9. Though speechlessness is called silence, yet it does not constitute pure reticence, in as much as the mute tongue may brood evil thoughts in the mind, which lead to the bondage of men.

  10. Thus the taciturn sages reckon four kinds of latitancy, which they style severally by the names of reservedness in speech, restriction of the organs, woodlike speechlessness and dead like silence as in one's sleep.

  11. To me it appeared that Cocoleu was at the bottom of the whole affair; that he knew the truth; and that I should be able to save Jacques, if I could prove Cocoleu's imbecility to be assumed, and his speechlessness to be an imposture.

  12. Her composed speechlessness in the midst of uneasy chatter--the Englishwoman is seldom really self-possessed--carried with it a certain dignity which took the place of breeding.

  13. The speechlessness of Nature environed her speechlessness.


  14. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speechlessness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.