Tammad enjoyed seeing me in pink, and couldn't understand why the gift had darkened my already bleak silence even further.

There was a bleak silence before the father answered.

Moved by the boy's bleak silence, Telemark spoke from the darkness.

Kirk said, breaking into the bleak silence that had fallen.

Slowly he lowered his hands, opened his tear-filled eyes to the bleak silence of what had been, but was no more, the Sanctum.

He looked again to the left, saw the bleak silence, felt a crawling uneasiness.

Beth and Lucien stared at each other in bleak silence.

He read it in its entirety, only the occasional rustle of a new page breaking the room's bleak silence.

After a minute Peter broke the bleak silence with another question.

The noise and commotion around him receded into the void of bleak silence within.