Sentence examples for deathly silence from inspiring English sources

A deathly silence.

A deathly silence follows.

"This awful, deathly silence".

There was a deathly silence.

"There was deathly silence," Mr. Crowley said.

Or worse still, just a deathly silence.

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When Bambi Kellerman, the widow of a Nazi fugitive, suddenly rounds on the London audience to ask if they know where their children are right now and what they are doing -- "they could be making love with an infected South African" -- the auditorium switches from laughs to a deathly, squirming silence.

It's also quiet, deathly quiet, without even the hum of the central heating or the swoosh of the washing machine to break the silence.

All goes deathly quiet.

The room was deathly quiet.