Term Gallery logo

Meanings of become silent in English

We have no meanings for "become silent" in our records yet.
Usage of become silent in English
1
The men had become silent; but few were sitting at the fires.
Who Goes There? / The Story of a Spy in the Civil War
2
The people had become silent, and faces that had laughed turned grave.
The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve
3
Lydia had already seen him; that was why she had become silent.
Thyrza
4
If that woman were sent by God, she would have become silent.
The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories
5
Both Harry and Mrs. Howard had become silent and were watching the general.
The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign
6
The birds that had sung so cheerfully upon our arrival had become silent.
Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879
7
But here Vassilissa Igorofna could only stammer and become silent, choked by emotion.
The Daughter of the Commandant
8
The gang had become silent and depressed at its leader's defeat.
The Cruise of the Dazzler
9
When the human voices have become silent, the voice of the dead speaks again.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
10
And the people having become silent, Augustin the bishop said:
Saint Augustin
11
When the Major learned who the stranger was, he had become silent and reserved.
The Duke's Children
12
Yet his failure to become silent at a word was the signal for punishment.
A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography
13
If she were sent by the devil, she would have become silent even then.
The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories
14
Jim had been drinking heavily on a daily basis ever since Bobby had become silent.
Johnny angel
15
The apparatus, which had become silent again, spoke; the words came now fast, then slow.
A Man and His Money
16
Beauchene had become silent and slowly paced the room.
Fruitfulness
This collocation consists of:
Become silent through the time
Become silent across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common