silent

Modifying Another Word

• eerily: Godfrey, Mark and Fred are eerily silent on this issue.
• strangely: Strangely silent on the moral problems of going to a country being bombed back to the stone age to fill your boots rebuilding it.
• virtually: Nevertheless, political science journals remain virtually silent on such issues.
• curiously: The map of the Award ( above ) is curiously silent about the nature of the ground being enclosed.
• clinically: OA can cause pain and lameness although in some dogs the disease may remain clinically silent for many months or years.

Preposition: for

• while: The wolf licked her hand, rested his head in her lap and was silent for a while.
• moment: The crowd fell silent for a few stunned moments.

Preposition: as

grave: But at this stage in its history, the Keep was as silent as the grave.

Modifies a noun

• vigil: Once in position, there will be a silent vigil at 8pm.
• killer: A silent killer ( Robert Lang ), wearing white sneakers, has been slashing to death women in London.
• auction: He also made 100 by running a silent auction with his wonderful image of the two dolphins in the waves.
• tear: A silent thought, a silent tear, Always wishing you were here.
• prayer: Some are led to forms of silent prayer, meditation or simply a resting in the Lord.
• majority: Richard: We like to think The Daily Mail speaks for the silent majority.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: The League of Nations remained silent on the invasion.
• fall: People talked together, then fell silent, then talked some more or looked at the stars.
• stay: Happily, these two little boys did not stay silent long.
• sit: In the midst of these ineffective councils the chief sits usually silent a kind of a gagged audience for village orators.
• keep: I would also like to see him keep silent whilst trying to give birth.
• stand: Their law provided for Him to stand there silent.