“I just needed to get away for some silence and solitude.”

“The class sat in silence as the teacher rebuked them for their naughtiness.”

“Detectives met to discuss ways to break the silence from those involved in the conspiracy.”

“I'm sorry I missed your call as my phone was on silent.”

“In the silent of the night, you may hear owls hooting.”

“Police discovered a stash of weed and an assault rifle fitted with a sniper's scope and a silencer.”

“Silently, he went to his car, removed the pistol from the glove box, screwed on the silencer, and placed it under his coat.”

“One day between Collooney and Ballisodare, a driver of McGowan's lost the exhaust silencer from the engine in a flood.”

“The ubiquitous Tully Marshall plays the grizzled sidekick role, showing much more range as an actor in talkies than he had in silents.”

“Like most films of its day, Little Caesar reflects the awkward transition from the era of silents to the new age of talkies.”

“Back in England, Hitchcock made the transition from silents to sound with blackmail, Britain's first talkie.”