"silent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

silent adjetivo

silent + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 256
silent film • silent era • silent movie • silent prayer • silent auction • silent partner • Silent Night • silent man • silent majority • ...
verbo + silent
Kolokacji: 14
fall silent • keep silent • stand silent • sit silent • remain silent • grow silent • go silent • lay silent • ...
adverbio + silent
Kolokacji: 43
completely silent • strangely silent • utterly silent • largely silent • suddenly silent • ...
(2) strangely, oddly, curiously
Kolokacji: 3
(4) unusually, remarkably
Kolokacji: 2
(5) conspicuously, discreetly
Kolokacji: 2
(6) stubbornly, obstinately
Kolokacji: 2
  • They remained obstinately silent, abject looking as well, the camouflage they had learned to use for safekeeping.
  • Some men whimpered, a few screamed, but most stayed obstinately silent.
  • And as she still remained obstinately silent he added more insistently: "Will you listen, citizeness?"
  • She had, however, remained as was her wont, obstinately silent, nor did he say anything more for the moment.
  • When the question was put to it as to who was the enigmatic enemy, the brain remained obstinately silent.
  • I was obstinately silent; sometimes for whole days together I did not utter a sound.
  • However, there were no weapons, and the coms in the headquarters structure remained obstinately silent, though we tried them at intervals.
  • Finding me obstinately silent, she has decided on writing to Eunice.
  • We introduced ourselves-or I introduced us, because Helen kept obstinately silent.
  • I said, answering for Trottle, who sat obstinately silent.
silent + preposición
Kolokacji: 23
silent about • silent for • silent on • silent in • silent with • ...

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