"terrible" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There was a terrible stillness about it this time, the absolute rigidity of timeless age.
- A terrible stillness had fallen on our ranks.
- After a terrible stillness, she stirred under me.
- And over the whole scene a terrible stillness reigned.
- She paused, then tapped again, once, hard and small in the terrible stillness.
- Underneath lay a terrible stillness, the silence after the final beating of the heart, the last shuddering breath.
- A terrible stillness came upon them all.
- Silence, the voice had gone, just a terrible stillness which left him trembling.
- Their eyes were open; some were standing, though most had sat down; and a terrible stillness hung over them.
- As he did so, he became aware of the extraordinary, almost terrible, stillness surrounding him.
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