Sentence examples for a protracted silence from inspiring English sources
After a protracted silence, he exclaimed, "This is such an easy dish!" at full voice, to no one in particular.
When I said, late in the call, "Hey, am I the only person on the line who's actually been shot in one of these things?," there was a protracted silence.
Taylor-Wood interestingly begins her film with the opening, jangling chord from A Hard Day's Night, left hanging in a protracted silence until its potential for implied menace and even tragedy has been allowed to float free.
A protracted silence filled the room until one woman finally spoke up.
Nearby, in a saloon car, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Kierston Wareing sit in protracted silence.
Another protracted silence.
Yet he is clearly tough, resourceful, calm; when he finally says something into the sputtering radio transmitter, there is an amusing moment when he has to cough and clear his throat, like all people who try speaking after protracted silence.
They also released a version of the album titled "1987 (The JAMs 45 Edits)", stripped of all unauthorised samples to leave periods of protracted silence and so little audible content that it was formally classed as a 12-inch single.
Unlike "Rubicon" — a relatively new series on AMC whose dark cinematography and protracted silences are steeped in the tradition of the paranoia films of the 1970s — "The Event" is bright and showy and too in thrall to its own hysteria to feel unsettling.
She doesn't mind the tension that arises from protracted silences.
