Sentence examples for chilly silence from inspiring English sources
His chief habits are loyalty to Mr Yeltsin and a chilly silence in public.
Amid the chilly silence that followed, according to Wilner's account, another guest stood up.
Christie's speech was received with rapturous applause by the Republican members of the legislature, but chilly silence from Democrats, whose leadership professed to have been unimpressed.
They were not, but a chilly silence descended on the crowd as Birdstone crossed the finish line, and it had nothing to do with the cool temperature.
For days, a chilly silence prevailed in all big Western capitals, despite Russia's deplorable behaviour first in whipping up sentiment in Estonia, and then in the grotesquely exaggerated responses orchestrated by the Kremlin.
The chilly silence that follows this explanation is broken by Matilde, ready with her usual remedy: "Would anybody like to hear a joke?" Of course it's told in Portuguese, so you probably won't get it.
That's a lot, and all of it fits comfortably into "Oylam," her first album for ECM: standards and Schubert and liturgical music, swing and chilly silences, a beautiful Satie-like piece in two different versions, to open and close the record.
There was a chilly spell of silence.
Mohammad Amir was treated to the full-body roughing up of a chilly Long Room silence – he may or may not have noticed – as he walked out to bat the morning after the spot-fixing story first appeared.
In that time I have reflected on and marveled at the chilly and dignified silence that has been maintained by the women I myself have dumped over the years.
In such a setting, a lone cyclist feels awfully small — and though that kind of humbling can be a thrill, I admit it can make me feel vulnerable, too, especially in the early morning when the air is crisp and chilly and the silence on the highway is broken by a rumbling double trailer truck speeding past at 70 miles an hour.
