Definition of silently | Bee Dictionary of English

A thought-experiment: What would become of the earth if humanity were to softly and silently and suddenly vanish away? What starts as a morbid parlor game becomes a mesmerizing and .
He's like somebody outlining the Internet in the '80s and watching silently as it comes to pass.
When Branch Rickey first met with Jackie about joining the Dodgers, he told him that for three years he would have to turn the other cheek and silently suffer all the vile things .

'Standing man' inspires silent demonstration in Turkey
A single man stood silently in Istanbul's Taksim Square for hours Monday night, defying police who broke up weekend anti-government protests with tear gas and water cannon and drawing hundreds of others to his vigil.
June 18, 2013 - CNN
'Standing man' inspires protests
A single man stood silently in Istanbul's Taksim Square for hours Monday night, defying police who broke up weekend anti-government protests with tear gas and water cannon and drawing hundreds of others to his vigil.
June 18, 2013 - CNN
Students log on to higher learning at Bronx Compass
The teens sat hunched over MacBook Pro laptops, silently maneuvering their fingers over the keyboards while hypnotic beats thumped through black headphones covering their ears. Behind them, a boy sat in a chair on a small stage and played the electric guitar, the sharp notes filling the darkly lit basement room.
June 18, 2013 - New York Daily News

Margaret Chan in Reuters
This is the true alarm bell. This tells us that resistant strains are now circulating in the general population, spreading widely and largely silently in a growing pool of latent infection,director-general Margaret Chan said. "Obviously...
Irving Penn in San Diego Union Tribune
Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print,Penn wrote in his own account of his career, "Passage: A Work Record."
Valentin Lebedev in USA Today
We don't understand what's going on with us,one of the crewmembers, Valentin Lebedev, wrote in the book "Diary of a Cosmonaut." "We silently walk by each other, feeling offended. We have to find some way to make things better."