Example Sentences

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Against this thick muteness, my ears strained to listen for something, anything.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2021

Recently I wrote a book about those things, Recollections Of My Non-Existence, about the muteness of my formative years.

From The Guardian • Feb. 29, 2020

Nearly every password I created back then reflected that thinking: 1Silence, NeedSilence, WantSilence, as if muteness could save me.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2018

The price of that protection is a conspicuous moral muteness: The light has gone under a bushel, and the salt has lost its flavor.

From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2018

When I refused to be the child they knew and accepted me to be, I was called impudent and my muteness sullenness.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou