breathless silence

For a space there was breathless silence in the room.

There was a waiting, breathless silence for a very long time.

A breathless silence, while everyone waited for the Chairman's next comment.

In the yard there was an abrupt and breathless silence.

There was breathless silence among the persons who had gathered round the girl.

Then there followed a moment of almost breathless silence.

And then, amid a breathless silence, the performance began.

Reddie got to his feet amid a rather breathless silence.

"Reverse power, sir," he said, his voice loud in what was now an almost breathless silence.

Then, after a long, breathless silence, the sirens of rescue vehicles began.

The people below them kept breathless silence for the play before the throne had not passed un-noticed.

They crowded close in breathless silence, knowing that some stupendous plan was coming.

There was a moment of breathless silence, then growls, shrieks.

There was a hushed, almost breathless silence as the tallying continued.

Out of the breathless silence sprang a voice at once: "Was the elephant badly hurt?"

Slowly and cautiously Tom scratched away the earth with a stick as everyone watched in breathless silence.

Finding none, she raised her head to regard him speculatively in the breathless silence.

The breathless silence, broken, perhaps, by a far sweet bird call, was not reassuring in itself and soon they would stop to listen again.

The three of them watched in breathless silence as the doors reached their maximum aperture.

The rhythm and movement became more orgastic until both ended in a sudden breathless silence.

The others stared at him in breathless silence.

Graham realised that the occupants of the other table were staring at them in breathless silence.

A breathless silence hung in the great hall.

The children waited in breathless silence, trying to ignore the droning of the stone behind them.

There was a breathless silence when he paused.