"nervous" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She spoke to friends and neighbours to see if they could help but was met with nervous silence.
- We sat in nervous silence for a few minutes.
- The platoon, a moment before brought to a nervous silence, now cracks up again.
- A nervous silence fell over the hall as the old man walked across the room and pushed open the door that led to the courtyard.
- For many moments their reply was nervous silence, though they were obviously receiving.
- But he then retreated into months of nervous silence.
- That stunned the colonists in the radio room into a nervous silence.
- We waited in nervous silence for the next, not knowing how many had been sent to prowl around our camp.
- Jay pressed it, and they waited in nervous silence by the elevator.
- For a moment, there was a nervous silence as the ghost passed.
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