"silence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Another thoughtful silence threatened; she decided to prime him.
- Instead, after the moment's silence threatened to stretch unbearably, she blurted, "Would you go back?
- His continued silence threatened to poison his marriage and would certainly destroy this friendship.
- Another silence threatened Anna, but this one was blessedly shortlived.
- As the silence threatened to stretch, Sparky climbed up from his seat onto the huge table.
- "Arch," I said, when the silence threatened to become oppressive, "what, exactly, did you plan to do with it?"
- Caspar asked when a silence threatened to develop.
- The silence after that threatened to extend itself for rather a long time.
- The momentary, following silence threatened Jennie, and she opened her lips to break it.
- His silence, expanding into the succeeding seconds, threatened to choke the universe.
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