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Meanings of keep silent in anglès

To stop speaking or making noise.

Usage of keep silent in anglès
1
Paris and the provinces broke out; the Parliament did not keep silent.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 0...
2
Although the Manchester police cleared Drake, she demanded money to keep silent.
Ebony
3
Maybe Gervaise made her keep silent, and the words just built up.
All together dead
4
Speak up clearly when you are spoken to, and keep silent otherwise.
To the blight: the eye of the world
5
Mark was right at his back, doing his best to keep silent.
The Kill Order
6
To keep silent was to co-operate in the evil-topander to it.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
7
Girls do not keep silent long, no matter how grave the situation.
Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid
8
Breathless with the very effort she made to keep silent and quiet.
Melbourne House, Volume 2
9
After all, for nearly twenty years he has had to keep silent.
Julian
10
Say nothing about it, Egbert, and tell the men to keep silent.
The Dragon and the Raven; Or, The Days of King Alfred
11
My father was so taken aback that he forgot to keep silent.
Novel Notes
12
Now I can go away, and keep silent for a long time.
The Web of Life
13
He ordered her to keep silent, that he would attend to everything.
The Godfather
14
About this, I say, leaky Parmeno should be able to keep silent.
The Deeds of God Through the Franks
15
Give me your word-yourpromise to keep silent-tokeep De Folligny silent-
Madcap
16
Time enough to talk then, or keep silent, as circumstances may dictate.
Elster's Folly: A Novel
This collocation consists of:
Keep silent through the time
Keep silent across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common