Sentence examples for expectant hush from inspiring English sources

An expectant hush descends on global markets.

An expectant hush came over the site.

There was an expectant hush as he tapped the microphone.

The clamour of the kristos subsides and an expectant hush falls as the cocks are set at each other.

"Through the deep expectant hush," she wrote, "we heard, one after another, the bells of Paris calling to each other".

Third set: Philippoussis 6-3, 2-6, 4-4 Anassi An expectant hush envelops court one as Agassi rushes into a 0-30 lead.

Instead, the performance, directed and choreographed by Imogen Knight, struck an incantatory mood and elicited an expectant, respectful hush from its audience.

The outrageous wit of George Bernard Shaw, cribbed from his play "Pygmalion" and matched with lively lyrics by Lerner, proved timelessly entertaining, while Loewe's melodies conspired with the moon and stars on a perfect midsummer's evening to create a mood of hushed, expectant romance.

As the expectant roar from the stands reverberated through the nervous hush of the huddle, he spoke urgently of "seizing the moment".

Perhaps the after-effects of last week's adrenaline-fuelled victory over the Republic of Ireland still lingered but the hush which descended over the majority in this expectant crowd told its own story.

Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house?