Sentence examples for agonizing silence from inspiring English sources
Respectful thousands hear an agonizing silence, punctuated with little heaving gulps.
After a full 20 seconds of agonizing silence, Bennett, the host, swooped in and attempted to save Maddie by ad-libbing some onstage banter, but he wasn't able to carry it.
The best puns require elaborate set-ups (Shakespeare wrote some doozies, of course) and illicit momentary, agonizing silences before the inevitable peals of laughter.
Barkley knew what he was risking, but he almost certainly never imagined this would be his fate, that the applause for his decision to stay in college would fade to the silence of his agonizing wait.
As the dance became more protracted — its silences more ominous, the slowness more agonizing — formal arrangements (a diagonal, a semicircle, a cross) coalesced as if by magic, then melted away.
He argues Penn's lawsuit "attempts to silence Daniels' honestly held opinion, a contribution to the marketplace of ideas voiced during the nation's agonizing debate about racial disparity and domestic violence.
It was an agonizing feeling".
It was an agonizing decision".
"My agonizing drives everyone crazy.
Carell understands that agonizing ambivalence.
