Silence has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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1. | Many Americans are uncomfortable with silence, and they tend to regard silence in a conversation as a signal that they need to start talking. | |
2. | Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence. | |
3. | A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. | |
4. | Sometimes silence is not oblivion. Sometimes silence is only patience. | |
5. | Listen as one may, there is no shadow of a sound in all that mighty wilderness; nothing but silence—complete and heart-subduing silence. | |
6. | Silence gives consent. | |
7. | Speech is silver, but silence is golden. | |
8. | I take it from your silence that you are not satisfied with my answer. | |
9. | The chairperson ordered silence. | |
10. | Silence grows like cancer. |