How to Use silent treatment in a Sentence

silent treatment

noun

• After that first homer, did anyone in the dugout give you the silent treatment?
  — Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2022
• The silent treatment and throwing out your things (twice) are abusive.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
• Is there anyone else who’s given you the silent treatment after a dunk?
  — Nina Mandell, For The Win, 21 June 2018
• His teammates were too excited to give him the silent treatment.
  — Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 23 June 2018
• No guilt-tripping, no last-minute attempts to change your mind, no silent treatment later on.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
• Ribbing was necessary, the silent treatment their tease of choice.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2018
• Gespass’ request isn’t the only one the city has given the silent treatment.
  — al, 6 Sep. 2019
• Her teenage daughter, Ally, opts to stay with her dad and give her mother the silent treatment.
  — Michele Filgate, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2021
• Ivana, the 31-year-old bar mitzvah dancer, gives Clayton the silent treatment.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 4 Jan. 2022
• The mayor encouraged fans to turn their backs and give Alomar the silent treatment.
  — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 30 May 2018
• But the silent treatment ultimately harms the person causing it, too.
  — Daryl Austin, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2021
• Explaining your feelings aloud can be difficult, but the silent treatment will not get you anywhere right now.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• That is the adverse outcome of the silent treatment of AI Ethics worker burnout.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• His teammates rewarded him with the silent treatment in the dugout before coming together to mob him and rub his long hair.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 22 Apr. 2021
• But really, is giving your top customers the silent treatment any way to reward their loyalty?
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2020
• Bill, for his part, seems as upset about Hillary’s silent treatment as the fact Dennis Kucinich won’t take his calls.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2021
• His teammates greeted him with the silent treatment as a fan outside the stadium collected the baseball.
  — Nathan Ruiz, baltimoresun.com, 30 Aug. 2020
• And yes, shutting someone down with exasperation can be a form of control, and yes, the silent treatment can be a form of control.
  — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020
• This normally manifests as awkward conversations or maybe a bit of silent treatment one way or the other.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 27 Mar. 2021
• Nomadland also won best picture but received a similar silent treatment.
  — NBC News, 26 Apr. 2021
• But Zuckerberg’s five-day silent treatment may prove more damning for Facebook than any of the news that precipitated it.
  — Jessi Hempel, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2018
• This miscommunication is far too minor and juvenile for anyone to be giving or getting the silent treatment.
  — Annie Lane, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2022
• Even though those who used silent treatment often viewed it as an effective conflict resolution tool, the ones on the receiving end saw it very differently.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
• That’s where silent treatment crosses the line into unhealthy relational behavior.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
• The team gave Diaz the trademark silent treatment at first, before mobbing him in front of the television cameras and joining in on the celebration.
  — Josh Criswell, Chron, 14 May 2023
• Our civil discussion devolved into the silent treatment followed by a series of terse emails and then reconciliation.
  — Elisabeth Egan, Glamour, 3 May 2018
• Instead, some of us learn to resort to cattiness, silent treatments, passive aggression, and the 'mean-girl' behaviours thought to be inherent to being female.
  — Natalie Gil, refinery29.com, 11 July 2023
• The silent treatment can damage relationships, sometimes irreparably.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2022
• In the present, they’re awkwardly reunited for his brother’s destination wedding in Barcelona, following two years of mutual silent treatment.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026
• After her husband retired, the disengagement, silent treatment and lack of support that characterized the relationship worsened.
  — Abby Ellin, Washington Post, 1 July 2024