Mute In A Sentence

Definition of Mute

• The lady was charmed by this homage; this mute and gentle admiration; and was happy in it.
• She waited in the middle of the room with lowered head, with a mute gleam in her deep blue eyes.
• Lloyd was still silent, his mouth agape and mute or reply to the truths that Brook was preaching.
• Old Peg dropped into her chair as if paralysed, and gazed from one to another in mute amazement.
• The joy of mild benignity approves, Which leads him to relax the rigid claims Of mute submission?
• The fifth degree taught that each of the seven mute prophets had twelve apostles for the dissemination of his faith.
• Clara had been taught to look on her equals with scorn, and she stared at her inferiors with a mute contempt that roused the devil in their hearts.
• Those who have felt it, will with caution obtrude themselves on her sacred privacy, and will know when to be mute in the presence of the mourner.
• Rhoda rubbed a thin cheek against the warm hand that still held hers, and the mute thanks said more than words.
• The burnt wagons, dead mules and new made graves were the mute witnesses left to tell of the fight.
• The publisher paused with his pen in his hand, and seemed waiting in mute suspense to know what was to be announced by so singular an apparition.
• The startled impulse of your refusal faded before the mute appeal in Ladykin's eyes.
• He was mute and passive; excepting that fits of child-like weeping would sometimes come over him without any immediate cause.
• In a case upon the wall were rows of shaving mugs, now dusty and abandoned, mute witnesses of a former era of glory.
• In the mute desperation of her look she appeared to be searching the garden, the world, and the immense darkness of the sky, for an answer.
• And thenceforward were they all more ready to submit unto Him whose commands the mute element was thus sent to obey.
• He is now in a trance; there is nothing left of him but a motionless body and a mute soul, dreaming of Helena.
• Then there was another thing: Hicks wasn't worth a tallow dip on mute mental suggestion.

• Thy very aspect is a mute reproach.
• Lessingham listened in mute distress.
• I stood mute with admiration.
• She made the same mute sign of affirmation.
• I noticed then a bit of mute play.
• On the lost night before it, mute and vast.
• Blunt turned to me politely, but only for a long mute gaze.
• Behind her, he rolled his eyes upward in mute protest.
• That with the morning hours Grows mute again.
• Some God is jealous of the mute caress . . .
• May fell back on her seat with a gesture of mute astonishment.
• In the solemn mute moments that followed the curlew wailed again.
• Hurrying from the palace, she stretched out her arms to him in mute entreaty.
• Rhoda lay mute in the young man's arms.
• Then he sat down, and covered his face with his hands in mute despair.
• He looked down, and at sight of the mute figure his face softened.
• I hung over him in mute affliction, and watched the expiring spasms of nature.
• And, save the mute and creeping worm, Nought else was there beside.
• Mrs. Horton, in mute despair, clasped the hands of her sister and daughter.
• There I saw the mute figure, clad in black, still gazing fixedly in.
• It was not a Bruno-Clarice kiss, mute and wistful and lappy.
• This artist was surnamed "the Mute of Kampen" because of his taciturnity.