"silence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There was breathless silence among the persons who had gathered round the girl.
- Then there followed a moment of almost breathless silence.
- In the yard there was an abrupt and breathless silence.
- The breathless silence, broken, perhaps, by a far sweet bird call, was not reassuring in itself and soon they would stop to listen again.
- For a space there was breathless silence in the room.
- The people below them kept breathless silence for the play before the throne had not passed un-noticed.
- There was a waiting, breathless silence for a very long time.
- "Reverse power, sir," he said, his voice loud in what was now an almost breathless silence.
- Reddie got to his feet amid a rather breathless silence.
- A breathless silence, while everyone waited for the Chairman's next comment.
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