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How to use the word silver in a Sentence? Page #8

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

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This is not a silver bullet, but it is an important step in delivering immediate improvements to the way we currently track aircraft while more comprehensive solutions are developed.

Angus Houston

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We don't want to sell the family silver of the Greek state at insultingly low prices.

Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I have had an amazing season and to be able to take the silver, I am super happy, mikaela Shiffrin was hard to beat today.

Frida Hansdotter

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's not about finding a silver bullet, if we find one, great, we'll be ready. But campaigns aren't won or lost all the time with a 'macaca' moment or a Todd Akin moment. What we're focused on is just connecting the dots in order to tell a story about each of these folks, hold them accountable for their records, and make sure that voters understand the other side and their real record.

Mo Elleithee

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The only silver lining is that Cyprus may now be able to have a discussion about its natural resource prospects that is grounded in reality rather than in wishful thinking.

Sofronis Clerides

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We looked at the economics and concluded it was not a contender in a meaningful way. So I felt it would get a silver medal and didn't deserve to get built.

Steven Udvar-Hazy

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I'm a huge fan of black and gold or black and silver because that's always going to look pretty sharp.

Lizzie Post

Found on CNN
9 years ago

People think of public health messaging as a silver bullet, but people’s minds are a lot harder to change than that.

Brendan Nyhan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

One 'silver bullet' drug doesn't work with 36 holes in the roof, the argument is maybe you need to patch some of those holes before trying another drug.

Dale Bredesen

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Good luck finding a silver lining in your story, i'm not sure you'll be able to.

Curtis Wilkie

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The Commissioner (Adam Silver) has acknowledged that we need to do more in this issue in terms of discipline going forward, mostly in terms of due process and not really relying on the criminal justice system.

Kathleen Behrens

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The emerging interest in several countries on women-only initiatives should be seen as an opportunity for improving security in cities but not as a silver bullet for dealing with gender-based violence in transportation and urban settings, women-only initiatives are not likely to provide long-term solutions as they only segregate by gender and provide a short-term remedy instead of addressing more fundamental issues.

Julie Babinard

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society; strapped to one arm of our chair will be a forty-five calibre revolver, and we shall shoot out the lights when we want to go to sleep, instead of turning them off; when we want air we shall throw a silver candlestick through the front window and be damned to it; we shall address public meetings in a vein of jocund malice. We shall but we dont wish to make any one envious of the good time that is coming to us We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.

Don Marquis

added by anonymous
9 years ago

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Bernard Mandeville

added by anonymous
10 years ago

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

Dwight L. Moody

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul. People smoke to celebrate a happy moment, or to hide a bitter regret. Whether you're alone or with friends, it's a joy for all the senses. What lovelier sight is there than that double row of white cigarettes, lined up like soldiers on parade and wrapped in silver paper? I love to touch the pack in my pocket, open it, savor the feel of the cigarette between my fingers, the paper on my lips, the taste of tobacco on my tongue. I love to watch the flame spurt up, love to watch it come closer and closer, filling me with its warmth.

Luis Buñuel

added by anonymous
10 years ago

”Aberjhani is also known as author of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, The Bridge of Silver Wings, and The Wisdom of W.E.B. Dubois. He publishes often in various publications, print and online. His poetry has an intensely intimate courage, the sort we would all wish to have, but too often hold protectively back.”

Zinta Aistars

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Bryant H. McGill

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness.

Bryant McGill

added by anonymous
11 years ago

If you wish to know how much preferable wisdom is to gold, then observe: if you change gold you get silver for it, but your gold is gone; but if you exchange one sort of wisdom for another, you obtain fresh knowledge, and at the same time keep what you possessed before.

The Talmud

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Though you may yourself abound in treasure, teach your son some handicraft; for a heavy purse of gold and silver may run to waste, but the purse of the artisan?s industry can never get empty.

Saadi Shirazi

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The good extend their loving care To men, however mean or vile; E?en base Ch?nd?las?* dwellings share Th? impartial sunbeam?s silver smile.

The Hitopadesa

added by anonymous
12 years ago

I will never trade gold for silver again.

esther clerici

added by anonymous
12 years ago

When God asks me "What have you done with the life I gave to you?", I don't want my answer to be "I spent it all chasing Silver and Gold."

Feneau Demesmin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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