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Significados de be silent em inglês

To stop speaking or making noise.

        Not say anything.

              Sinônimos
              Examples for "hold one's tongue"
              Examples for "hold one's tongue"
              1
              Under many circumstances it is not difficult to hold one's tongue.
              How to Study and Teaching How to Study
              2
              It is a very good thing to be able to hold one's tongue!
              Stories to Tell to Children
              3
              In times like these, one must hold one's tongue.
              The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 08: 1563-64
              4
              If one could always hold one's tongue as to what one sees, one would be the better for it.
              Pepper & Salt; or, Seasoning for Young Folk
              5
              When one has talked to one's self for a great many years it is hard to hold one's tongue in public.
              Clair de Lune / A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes
              1
              Go in the spare room, where it is cool; we'll keep quiet.
              A Daughter of the Land
              2
              You need to be able to keep quiet when hunting and fishing.
              Reuters
              3
              The story is that my father paid her to keep quiet, right?
              The hellfire club
              4
              The longer they keep quiet and do nothing, the better for us.
              The Boy Allies in Great Peril; Or, With the Italian Army in the ...
              5
              So they keep quiet and hope someone else will take the risk.
              Earth Afire
              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
              1
              Roth later allowed people to return after admonishing them to remain silent.
              Reuters
              2
              All 33 members had invoked their right to remain silent, he added.
              Reuters
              3
              Republican candidates did not exactly remain silent following the San Bernardino shooting.
              The Guardian
              4
              The law gives me the right to remain silent in any event.
              Moral
              5
              Yet he could tell that they were struggling to remain silent, too.
              Worldwinder
              Uso de be silent em inglês
              1
              It is a case of be silent or stand up, he said.
              The Irish Times
              2
              The wood-pigeon in the fir trees could not be silent any longer.
              Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
              3
              In the presence of tears I can neither speak nor be silent.
              Love and Other Stories
              4
              He will be silent; he has the power to make her so.
              Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida / Selected from the Works of Ou...
              5
              I wonder whether you can be silent in the sight of night-fishing.
              Feats on the Fiord / The third book in "The Playfellow"
              6
              Reginald will learn to be silent, just as he learned to talk.
              The King’s Curse
              7
              The Asiatic princes-But the ruler of the state must be silent.
              Cleopatra — Volume 04
              8
              He signed to Dermot to be silent and said in solemn tones:
              The Elephant God
              9
              Really nothing; and I hoped he would allow me to be silent.
              Villette
              10
              Many know well how to speak; few know when to be silent.
              The Parables of Our Lord
              11
              She would lose herself in thought at times, and she'd be silent.
              Her mother's hope
              12
              Far more have sacrificed too much more for me to be silent.
              NY Magazine
              13
              Now please be silent unless you have a cogent point to make.
              The Neutronium Alchemist
              14
              Hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear.
              The American Union Speaker
              15
              Harvey motioned the others to be silent, and tiptoed across the floor.
              The Short Line War
              16
              He knew it was one of the things to be silent about.
              The Lost Prince