Sentence examples for a pit of silence from inspiring English sources

We started again, and again the play dropped into a pit of silence.

"It's just a tattoo," he says, when the silence goes on so long that we have nearly fallen over the edge of it into a pit of black nothingness.

A pit of snakes.

A pit of bottomless despair?

I was in a pit of pain.

What a monument!—of silence.

UNC students join in the Pit for a peaceful protest, & a moment of silence as they lie on the ground #Ferguson #wral pic.twitter.com/BFLlX9nKgV.

A period of silence followed.

A moment of silence, please.

A beat of silence.

A moment of silence.