There was a moment of thick silence in the room.

"Just one big happy family," I said into the thick silence that had filled the car.

We went the rest of the way in a thick silence.

A knock at the door broke the thick silence in the room.

The wind had died, leaving a thick silence on the hills.

When he closed the door behind him, a thick silence descended over the house.

When he said nothing, Abby spoke into the thick silence.

There was a sudden thick silence in the room, like velvet.

All I heard at that point was a thick silence, which wasn't particularly surprising.

Finally, Nikki could stand the thick silence between them no more.