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For a moment there was complete silence in the room.

There was a complete silence for two or three minutes.

For a couple of minutes he sat in complete silence.

Both women sat in complete silence for five more minutes.

There was complete silence on the other end of the line.

For one moment, there was complete silence outside, then she heard a new sound.

He held up his hands, and in a moment there was complete silence.

The last ten minutes had been spent in complete silence.

There was complete silence as they stood looking at each other.

He did not say another word for a very long time; perhaps an hour went by in complete silence.

The rest of the drive home passed in almost complete silence.

In complete silence, the lights went out under the big top.

A complete silence room with lots of interest one can study.

There was a moment of complete silence as the door closed behind them.

We make the rest of the journey in complete silence.

I sat through three minutes of complete silence and then spoke.

There was complete silence; then everyone began speaking at once.

The complete silence told Stern all he needed to know.

Having said so much and more, his complete silence now seems unnecessary.

"I needed to spend time writing in complete silence," he said.

At times it died away completely, leaving a complete silence.

When he stopped, there was complete silence other than the sounds of his own body.

There was, for a moment, almost complete silence throughout the ship.

In complete silence the two men drifted forward together, looking about them.

There was a moment of complete silence, then the butler came back.

He was a big man, but one who moved with total silence.

I walked the rest of the way home in total silence.

There was total silence in the room for several minutes.

And all this was being done in nearly total silence.

For a moment there was total silence in the market.

When the words were said, the room dropped to total silence.

When I missed for the third time, there was total silence.

How rarely, he thought, can modern man experience a total silence!

Cage had gone to a place where he expected total silence, and yet heard sound.

I killed the engine, and for the first time in hours there was almost total silence.

And so, after months of total silence, she has put together the most sincere question a human being can ask.

We sat that way in total silence for at least a minute, though it felt like longer.

You walked into the gallery, and there was total silence.

There is a moment of total silence, then the screams begin.

In his presence I was almost always reduced to total silence.

Even to the very young ones, they sat in total silence, bodies still and waiting.

We made our way down the forest paths in total silence, without light.

This last, the Colombian sat through in almost total silence until he asked the single question.

The drive home took fifteen minutes, which she spent in total silence, no radio.

Who has not seen or been part of a couple dining together at a restaurant in total silence?

Men breathe, and in total silence their breathing can be heard.

It had been carried out with precision and in total silence.

But for his presence, they might have used the voice of the mind, and conducted it in total silence.

Father Casey appeared to begin the service, and there was total silence in the church.

We stood there for five minutes in total silence, everybody holding their breath.

He started for the door in a dead silence and looked back.

There was dead silence in the room for a long moment.

There was dead silence for a moment as they looked at one another.

There was dead silence on her end of the line.

There was a moment of dead silence from the other side.

There was another dead silence, then Clinton looked over at her.

In the dead silence, even their steps seemed to make no sound.

There was a dead silence as they all took this in.

When he sat down there was the same dead silence.

The dead silence of space, where no sound can travel.

But when they reached the place there was dead silence.

His voice was clear and cool in the dead silence of the room.

There was a dead silence for a minute or two.

I picked it up and heard nothing but dead silence.

For a moment there was dead silence on the wire.

She bore in dead silence everything they wanted to do to her.

He looked up again in the midst of a dead silence.

Go into one of these forests and hear total, dead silence.

We walked along in dead silence for quite a distance.

There was a dead silence of at least a minute, and I thought, it's finally happened.

I had told them all the story, to which they listened in dead silence.

"There was just dead silence in the room," one official said.

There was dead silence on the bridge for a time after that.

The first had been swallowed up, and there was dead silence.

There was dead silence as she took the last slip, her own.