A painful silence crept over the courtyard.

The uncomfortable silence crept over them again.

A slow stupefied silence crept over the men as they stared at the computer and then at each other.

"Your sword is-" Michael put a finger across her lips, and the silence crept over them again.

Sometimes the silences crept in from the corners of the hut, bearing fragments of memory.

A strange silence crept over the room, taking with it the last drop of the spirit of celebration.

He left the remark unexplained, and silence crept back into the high hall.

The silence crept around them, as thick as the darkness.

The silence crept in, marked our common melancholy.

The silence creeps over the gray gloom that is the desert at night and even the natural night sounds are not there.