fall silent

Verb

Meaning

fall silent (third-person singular simple present falls silent, present participle falling silent, simple past and past participle fell silent)

To become quiet.

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Examples

As the rat behaves, the active cells fall silent and new cells become active, but the overall percentage of active cells remains more or less constant. Source: Internet

It indicated NASA would use its Deep Space Network antennas to listen "once or twice a month" for the spacecraft's signal, until "some time in late 1996" when "its transmitter will fall silent altogether." Source: Internet

Catholic tradition asks us to fall silent from noon to 3, as those are the hours during which Jesus suffered on the cross for the sins of mankind, and meditate on how we… Source: Internet

But as soon as the Holy Father set foot on our soil, the hostile voices began to fall silent. Source: Internet

Furthermore, by recognizing any feeling, image, urge, etc. that supports drinking/using as "Beast activity", the compulsions will fall silent, and the person can eventually regain control over their life and never worry about relapses. Source: Internet

From here, contemporary histories fall silent. Source: Internet

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