After a few minutes of pregnant silence, she turned and said, "The account is considerably higher than the amount mentioned."
Again there was a pregnant silence, then someone arose to ask a question.
There was a thoughtful, pregnant silence on the line for a minute.
The thump seemed to echo in the pregnant silence that followed.
There was a short pregnant silence, and Juliet could feel the uneasiness in the room.
There was a tense, pregnant silence for a few moments.
Teras closed his eyes as he waited through a pregnant silence below.
She had often wondered what a pregnant silence was.
I gave him half a minute, then interrupted his pregnant silence.
"I believe the playwright has a direction in his script that says 'a pregnant silence followed,'" she said.