"silence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Anna looked up, surprised to be spoken to after so lengthy a silence.
- There was a lengthy silence from the other end of the line.
- There was a lengthy silence, and then another creak, as if the same something were walking back across the room again.
- Then after a lengthy silence, she turned back to him, eyes searching his face intently.
- After a lengthy silence, she turned to face me.
- Aware of her lengthy silence, he turned away from his introspection.
- After a lengthy silence, Kit finally drew away from her.
- "Whoever this young man is I'd like to thank him," her father continued after a lengthy silence.
- There followed a lengthy silence as he tried to come up with something.
- After a lengthy, painful silence, Del turned her head away.
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