Sentence examples for breathless silence from inspiring English sources
Dan Pearl of the Massapequa Fire Department, there would be absolute, almost breathless silence.
Then came the excitement of the concert, after which Ellington brought the gathering to a breathless silence while he improvised a gentle piece dedicated to Pat Nixon.
Not until we rose to go did we realise that behind the various partitions the restaurant was hanging on his every word in breathless silence.
Dr. Simpson's white-gloved finger lightly traced the air over Page 102 of the handwritten account as he read: "In almost breathless silence, the General filled his glass with wine and, turning to the officers, he said, 'With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you.
Then, amid breathless silence, the Queen pressed the launching button which sped the vessel on its way to the river".
In breathless impotent silence we listened.
The whispered samples are breathy and the silences are breathless; but every crest and trough of the waveform are equally breath-taking.
The young couple, in the first blush of connubial bliss, are simply too breathless to speak, the intimate silence of wonder too holy to break.
He lives alone, working for long periods in unusual seclusion, and his almost breathless leaps between subjects might be making up for months of silence.
Some nights I traipse around pregnant, breathless, and eating grapes at 1 a.m., overwhelmingly nervous and afraid of what will happen in my silence.
