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Sentence Examples He pushed it and as he did, the murmuring stopped, the sound of chatter around him came to a dead silence. A dead silence falls, broken only by a sharply indrawn breath of someone who has had their worst suspicions confirmed. There was a dead silence in the room except for the occasional crackle of the jumping embers inside the fireplace. There was about half a minute of total dead silence before she could manage any words. After a while the noise seemed gradually to die away, till all was dead silence, and Alice lifted up her head in some alarm. The class stayed in the kind of dead silence that most teachers would greet with joy. Since disaster struck the students have been making frantic phone calls only to be greeted by dead silence. And if you can hold eight hundred people in dead silence and hear a pin drop you know something's going right. There was a long moment of dead silence as Jessica processed that piece of depressing information. The near dead silence was obliterated as alarms wailed across the loudspeakers. All sound stopped instantly and there was dead silence from inside the bar. The most amusing parts were when they'd call for audience participation, and there'd be dead silence. There was a dead silence on the court for a few moments before Flynn's roar woke the officials up. It's been almost a year now and there has been pretty much dead silence on the matter. There was dead silence for the first 10 minutes, until Shelly's dad came and got her. The room fell into dead silence as it was clear no one had the money to upstage his bid. Maybe the officials can answer, as there is dead silence from Government members. Everyone sat there in dead silence for a moment, quietly digesting what they'd just heard. A dead silence followed as each person took time to analyze his surroundings. You'll hear gasps, a dead silence, then the sound of sobbing. Show More Sentences The issue is as clear as mud, a dead silence, an ultimate taboo: so above all, let's not talk about this DAD which protects nothing and no-one. So when, during a lecture on D.H. Lawrence, Bill mentioned that the writer's sexual problems were rooted in his relationship with his mother, there was dead silence. The fact that this research has not lead to dozens of follow up studies, but instead was followed by dead silence, raises many questions in my mind. A wave of laughter flared up at that one, followed by a dead silence. The contrast may be stark between the recognition they enjoy at home and the dead silence surrounding them in the host country. For a moment I must have lost consciousness completely, and I remember how, just before, I had intently listened to the dead silence around me. Two walls of dead silence have hidden the gigantic progress accomplished, one that pushes it away out of sight and one inspired by discretion. I do not want to be unkind or disloyal, because I greatly respected those men, but there was dead silence in the room. There was dead silence for a minute and then something streaked past. That comment caused dead silence, because he hit the nail on the head. Some think tanks are writing reports, and some of them are quite alarming, but in the Speech from the Throne and the budget, there is dead silence. But people fear loneliness and dead silence. The unsufficiency and uncandidness of his answer became painfully apparent in the dead silence of the room. Or bustin' sugar rocks in a sunny field of goober peas in the dead silence of an Alabama summer. The Ghost, on hearing this, set up another cry, and clanked its chain so hideously in the dead silence of the night, that the Ward would have been justified in indicting it for a nuisance. The world all dead silence, save when, from far down below us in the woods, comes up the crepitation of the little wooden drum that beats to church. The related transformations can be worked out in dead silence in Scorpio. Potra prepares himself for his exercise in a dead silence. Examples from Classical Literature There was a dead silence in the room as she stood there, eyes closed, and slowly ran her fingers over his rib cage. For a while there was a dead silence, save when broken by smacking and relishing lips. He sat down amid a dead silence, conscious he had overdone it. It was succeeded by a quick, hysteric laugh, and then a dead silence. There was a dead silence, and Sir Walter's usually steady brain seemed to go round like a windmill. It was the dead silence of our long gaze at such close quarters that gave the whole horror, huge as it was, its only note of the unnatural. There was a dead silence, which at length the marquess broke. The dead silence of the house added to the unusualness of things. An hour later she and Rushie were mangling and ironing, in dead silence. He took up the pen again, and began picking the feathers from the quill in dead silence. For about ten minutes he sat in dead silence, perfectly still, except for several expressive motions of his eyebrows, and all the time his eyes grew steadily greener. And afterwards, we would fall into a dead silence, and I would sit impatiently thinking with what an unusual amount of noise the oars worked in the thowels. Find more words! 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