"silence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

silence sustantivo

sustantivo + silence

Kolokacji: 7

radio silence • Sunday Silence • Silence of the Lambs • ringing silence • morning silence • ...

silence + verbo

Kolokacji: 69

silence falls • silence follows • silence descends • silence reigns • silence stretches • silence fills • silence comes • silence hangs • ...

verbo + silence

Kolokacji: 59

keep silence • lapse into silence • sit in silence • break the silence • ride in silence • eat in silence • walk in silence • stare in silence • ...

frequent collocations

Kolokacji: 23

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 11

(1) keep, wait, hold, maintain, look, ...

Kolokacji: 9

(2) lapse, pass

Kolokacji: 2

(3) sit, ride, walk, drive, wave, ...

Kolokacji: 8

(4) break, shatter, stun

Kolokacji: 3

(5) eat, fill, meet, use

Kolokacji: 4

(6) stare, watch, ensure

Kolokacji: 3

(7) take, raise, punctuate, bring, reduce, ...

Kolokacji: 7

1. take one's silence = brać czyjś cisza take one's silence

He took my silence for refusal to tell him, and accepted it with no more questions.
The winner says, 'I take your silence to mean that you are in agreement with me'.
As she'd hoped, he took her silence for an affirmative.
He took my silence as a rebuff and didn't say another word.
She didn't answer, and he took her silence as permission.
To which she says nothing at all, and I take her silence for submission.
She seemed to take his silence as an urging to go on.
She did not know how to reply, but he apparently took her silence for agreement.
When I did not respond she took my silence to mean the worst.
He went on to name a figure, and took Merrill's silence as acceptance.

2. raise for silence = podnieś ze względu na ciszę raise for silence

3. silence punctuated = cisza przerwała silence punctuated

4. bring silence = wnieś ciszę bring silence

5. reduce to silence = ucisz reduce to silence

6. produce a silence = wywołaj ciszę produce a silence

7. silence stretched = cisza wystawiła na próbę silence stretched

(8) stand, listen, fall, suffer, notice, ...

Kolokacji: 9

(9) buy, choose, prefer

Kolokacji: 3

(10) demand, want, request, ask, need, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(11) impose, explain, interpret, sound, signal

Kolokacji: 5

adjetivo + silence

Kolokacji: 201

long silence • sudden silence • stunned silence • dead silence • awkward silence • complete silence • absolute silence • total silence • ...

preposición + silence

Kolokacji: 16

into silence • in silence • of silence • for silence • with silence • ...

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