Usage of "being silent"

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espanyol

To not speak.

Sinònims

Examples for "being quiet"

Examples for "being quiet"

As for being quiet, I shall be quiet whenever I like it. 
 The Claverings 

All this time, the dogs were far from being quiet or satisfied. 
 Oak Openings 

I'd have to concentrate on being quiet, or not saying anything incriminating. 
 Made of honor 

I hadn't realized he was awake, but she wasn't being quiet, either. 
 Enclave 

It was all the mother and just about being quiet, she said. 
 Ebony 

The arms shut up in the arsenals were distributed among the populace. 
 World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France 

Mrs. Sutcliffe would be shut up in the dining-room with the sewing-party. 
 Mary Olivier: a Life 

The gnomes kept me shut up in their hill all the time. 
 A Patriotic Schoolgirl 

The place is now shut up, and the owners live in France. 
 Ireland Under Coercion: The Diary of an American (2 of 2) / (2nd... 

The troubled times of the Regulators shut up the courts of justice. 
 Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer 

Ús de being silent en anglès

However, now is a time when being silent is not an option. 
 News.com.au 

I've spent so many years getting used to being silent with you. 
 To the end of the land 

The moon went on with her silentness: she never stops being silent. 
 There & Back 

They did not say much, but felt no constraint in being silent. 
 The Voyage Out 

A superior position was offered her by her being silent and critical. 
 Celt and Saxon — Volume 1 

My companions being silent, I was impelled to address myself to Trottman. 
 The Adventures of Hugh Trevor 

It doesn't matter being silent with Delancey because he doesn't notice it. 
 Balloons 

In Trump's case, it appears he was better off being silent. 
 Ebony 

Even the babies seemed to feel the need of being silent. 
 Wayside Courtships 

They walked side by side; and, suddenly tired of being silent, she sang. 
 The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 

Then tell him some day not to mind my being silent. 
 Villette 

She did not speak, and, after being silent a second, he went on. 
 Roger Trewinion 

But being silent or loyal got no one off the hook. 
 Solar 

Then I had to spend a minute being silent and dignified. 
 Anathem 

Yet what reason could Jo have for being silent, for hiding his secret? 
 The Right of Way — Volume 03 

Reticent and reluctant We regard reticent as meaning unwilling to speak, or being silent. 
 Radio NZ 

Translations for being silent

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Significats de being silent en anglès