"silence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A tight, brittle silence held all the men at the firing wall.
- There was a sharp, brittle silence before either of them moved.
- He did not speak again, nor had she any reason to break the brittle silence lying between them.
- From behind her, up at the head of the pass, there came the distant shrilling of a warning whistle, followed by a brittle waiting silence.
- Chekov stared at Scott in brittle silence, his face blank, his back rigid.
- In the brittle silence of the forest clearing, Miach said, very clearly, "Hear me.
- A brittle electric silence fell on the large room.
- After a brittle silence, she asked, "What you want?"
- She had expected music on the bridge, not a brittle silence.
- Usara cleared his throat in the brittle silence.
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