"painful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There was a long painful silence while she deliberated on his words.
- A painful silence settled over the room, deep and charged.
- Only she didn't, and the painful silence dragged on.
- There was a painful silence for a time, broken by the major's suggestive cough.
- A long, painful silence followed, which I did not choose to break.
- We circled and climbed out of the canyon in painful silence.
- When the point had been reached, there would be a painful silence.
- The Protestants went about in painful silence, and fear blanched every face.
- Nothing was done, and some questions were still pointed to him, followed by a moment of painful silence.
- After a lengthy, painful silence, Del turned her head away.
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