1However, now is a time when being silent is not an option.
2I've spent so many years getting used to being silent with you.
3The moon went on with her silentness: she never stops being silent.
4They did not say much, but felt no constraint in being silent.
5A superior position was offered her by her being silent and critical.
6My companions being silent, I was impelled to address myself to Trottman.
7It doesn't matter being silent with Delancey because he doesn't notice it.
8In Trump's case, it appears he was better off being silent.
9Even the babies seemed to feel the need of being silent.
10They walked side by side; and, suddenly tired of being silent, she sang.
11Then tell him some day not to mind my being silent.
12She did not speak, and, after being silent a second, he went on.
13But being silent or loyal got no one off the hook.
14Then I had to spend a minute being silent and dignified.
15Yet what reason could Jo have for being silent, for hiding his secret?
16Reticent and reluctant We regard reticent as meaning unwilling to speak, or being silent.
Translations for being silent