go silent

The station still had financial problems and again went silent in May 1983.

The world around him seemed to go silent and still.

He just goes quite silent and doesn't speak for days.

The computer's voice went silent, and the three men looked at each other.

Finally she raised a hand, and slowly they went silent again.

Tom and Al went silent, each waiting for the other.

He went silent after that, and I decided it was time for me to leave him alone.

But as was usually the way between them, both men simply went silent.

I went silent for a moment, thinking about everything I'd just heard.

Suddenly, I felt as if everything in the world had gone silent.