"silence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

silence sustantivo

sustantivo + silence
Kolokacji: 7
radio silence • Sunday Silence • Silence of the Lambs • ringing silence • morning silence • ...
silence + verbo
Kolokacji: 69
silence falls • silence follows • silence descends • silence reigns • silence stretches • silence fills • silence comes • silence hangs • ...
verbo + silence
Kolokacji: 59
keep silence • lapse into silence • sit in silence • break the silence • ride in silence • eat in silence • walk in silence • stare in silence • ...
adjetivo + silence
Kolokacji: 201
long silence • sudden silence • stunned silence • dead silence • awkward silence • complete silence • absolute silence • total silence • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 49
(2) sudden, abrupt, instant
Kolokacji: 3
(5) awkward, embarrassing
Kolokacji: 2
(8) total, official, unbroken
Kolokacji: 3
(13) deep, profound, thick, intense
Kolokacji: 4
(17) sullen, morose, moody, surly
Kolokacji: 4
2. breathless silence = cisza pełna emocji lub napięcia breathless silence
  • Through the muffling, suffocating silence, I heard Madeleine coming downstairs and opening the cellar door.
  • It was only after a moment of deep, intense, suffocating silence that she heard the hatred Steve put into saying the name.
  • The screen slowly faded to black, and a suffocating silence filled the room.
  • Even muffled by the front door, the sounds seemed to push back the suffocating silence of the house like a cool breeze.
  • There was a suffocating silence.
  • Then she heard a new cry, this one far off to the west, a wild shriek that pierced the suffocating silence.
  • Thick, suffocating silence crowded in to fill the void and darkness.
  • Instead they walked into an atmosphere of such suffocating silence that Daystrom felt as if he could barely breathe.
  • In some of the most gripping sequences what you hear mostly is a suffocating silence.
  • Justice Douglas spoke admiringly in his unanimous opinion of "lives of high spirits rather than hushed, suffocating silence."
(25) public, conspicuous, mutual
Kolokacji: 3
(27) solemn, somber, weighty
Kolokacji: 3
(28) dignified, peaceful, serene
Kolokacji: 3
(30) virtual, inner
Kolokacji: 2
(33) discreet, tactful, prudent
Kolokacji: 3
(34) oppressive, leaden
Kolokacji: 2
(35) angry, stricken, paralyzed
Kolokacji: 3
(36) self-imposed, deliberate
Kolokacji: 2
(37) stoic, stolid, expressionless
Kolokacji: 3
(38) hostile, bitter, resentful
Kolokacji: 3
(39) stony, brittle
Kolokacji: 2
(40) ghostly, shadowy
Kolokacji: 2
(41) usual, unaccustomed, customary
Kolokacji: 3
(42) watchful, wary
Kolokacji: 2
(43) resounding, hissing
Kolokacji: 2
(47) incredulous, wide-eyed
Kolokacji: 2
(48) palpable, general
Kolokacji: 2
(49) tomblike
Kolokacji: 1
preposición + silence
Kolokacji: 16
into silence • in silence • of silence • for silence • with silence • ...

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