My parents looked as though they might both pass out from the silence.
And of course the jury are free to take any meaning they will from your silence.
The first suggestion that something was wrong came from the silence.
Only then did the fourth person in the room stir from her silence.
"This is what comes from your own silence, refusing to talk to me!"
You could sense it from the long silence during which nothing was heard but the sound of sipping.
"Bring that man to me," ordered a cold voice from the silence.
These qualities also answer the earlier question of what good comes from inner silence.
Some say they learned to draw encouragement from his silence.
He knew from their silence what the outcome was long before they worked up the nerve to tell him.