The silence hummed for a moment, and then from the far doorway there was an interval of dribbling, the bright sound of a small bottle emptying into a still pool, the last trickle and the high notes of the drops made echoey by the blue tiles.

The silence hummed.

An embarrassed silence hummed on the air.

The silence crackled and hummed.

The silence in his headphones hummed quickly, and he readied his cannons and watched the spy plane blowing up rapidly in size as he dropped down upon it.

The Cod's silence hummed around the Imam, or perhaps it was a buzzing in his ears.

Then she paused and silence hummed along the wires.

The door slammed behind him, silence hummed, and then who could blame her, Bib thought sympathetically - Ros burst into tears.

The empty silence between them almost hummed.