reduce someone to silence

In his presence I was almost always reduced to total silence.

The Holocaust belongs to the type of enormous experience which reduces one to silence.

This was enough to at last reduce Veedron to silence.

But that last question fairly reduced her to silence.

Since Daniel agreed with this he was reduced to silence.

The warder's step on the stones outside reduced them to silence.

Scotland has mastered the art of reducing visitors to silence.

It was the sort of thought that always reduced her to pensive silence.

Many if not most of my students were reduced to tears and silence.

Some moments passed and I heard the volume of the background noise reduced to silence.