moment of silence

noun phrase

: a short period of silent thought or prayer

The crowd observed a moment of silence for those who died in the tragedy.

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During a pregame ceremony, there were tears, there was a stunningly long moment of silence, there was his family lined up on the third-base line during pregame introductions, and there was a first pitch placed on the back of the mound next to where the number 34 had been painted into the dirt. —

Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024 Chicago Marathon organizers held a moment of silence for Kiptum before the race and offered the nearly 50,000 runners a memorial sticker to add to their bibs. —

Manasi Pathak, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024 Organizers held a moment of silence for Kiptum before the race and offered the nearly 50,000 runners a memorial sticker to add to their bibs. —

Associated Press, TIME, 13 Oct. 2024 Biden marked the first anniversary of Oct. 7 not with a call to Netanyahu, but with a moment of silence at the White House. —

Shannon K. Kingston, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for moment of silence

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