The winch sound silenced abruptly and he heard the hiss of the bag against the tube's walls.

But Chauvelin abruptly silenced the wretch with a curt command; then, without another word, he walked straight out of the room.

In this world of men however, where the expression of emotion is viewed as antithetical to its purity, Knight abruptly silences his friend.

She sprawled flat on the hard wooden floor, her cry abruptly silenced as all the air rushed out of her body.

Chekov tugged something loose from deep beneath his console, and the alarm abruptly silenced.

Silenced abruptly, I held my breath, listening.

What else she said he did not hear, and only half realized the reflexive sweep of his arm, her shriek of terror abruptly silenced.

He stumbled then fell on to the track, his scream silenced abruptly as he disappeared beneath the screeching wheels.

The staccato of the machine gun silenced abruptly.

More muffled communications ensued, which the Navigator abruptly silenced.