"silence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- After a few minutes of pregnant silence, she turned and said, "The account is considerably higher than the amount mentioned."
- Again there was a pregnant silence, then someone arose to ask a question.
- There was a thoughtful, pregnant silence on the line for a minute.
- The thump seemed to echo in the pregnant silence that followed.
- There was a short pregnant silence, and Juliet could feel the uneasiness in the room.
- There was a tense, pregnant silence for a few moments.
- Teras closed his eyes as he waited through a pregnant silence below.
- She had often wondered what a pregnant silence was.
- I gave him half a minute, then interrupted his pregnant silence.
- "I believe the playwright has a direction in his script that says 'a pregnant silence followed,'" she said.
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