Example Sentences

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Often with these types of projects where people are coming forward, it is about being silenced and it is about being able to be unsilenced.

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2025

Whenever a donor’s unsilenced cellphone goes off at a fundraiser while President Joe Biden is talking, he has the same joke ready to go: It’s Donald Trump on the other line.

From Washington Times • Oct. 1, 2022

But surely, I can be allowed to mention what has to be the all-time put-down of an audience member with an unsilenced cellphone.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2019

In like manner, in the clear daylight of reason I could see the absurdity of my suspicion, but the vague stirrings of feeling remained unsilenced.

From The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English by Hawthorne, Julian

Remorse was deadened but conscience was yet unsilenced within him.

From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Cullum, Ridgwell