To stop speaking or making noise.
1 It is a case of be silent or stand up, he said.
2 The wood-pigeon in the fir trees could not be silent any longer.
3 In the presence of tears I can neither speak nor be silent .
4 He will be silent ; he has the power to make her so.
5 I wonder whether you can be silent in the sight of night-fishing.
6 Reginald will learn to be silent , just as he learned to talk.
7 The Asiatic princes-But the ruler of the state must be silent .
8 He signed to Dermot to be silent and said in solemn tones:
9 Really nothing; and I hoped he would allow me to be silent .
10 Many know well how to speak; few know when to be silent .
11 She would lose herself in thought at times, and she'd be silent .
12 Far more have sacrificed too much more for me to be silent .
13 Now please be silent unless you have a cogent point to make.
14 Hear me for my cause; and be silent , that you may hear.
15 Harvey motioned the others to be silent , and tiptoed across the floor.
16 He knew it was one of the things to be silent about.
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