Sentence examples for expectant silence from inspiring English sources
The phrase "expectant silence" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a moment of quiet anticipation or waiting for something to happen. Example: "As the final seconds of the game ticked away, an expectant silence fell over the crowd."
No one expected Mr. Biden to stop there, but he did, leaving an expectant silence, until the audience caught the joke and burst into laughter.
An expectant silence fell.
An expectant silence followed.
An expectant silence is building in the stadium.
Nevertheless, an expectant silence settles, as if everyone but me knows what's about to happen.
So, there are two things we can do". He pauses and an expectant silence falls.
This may be Mallarmé's ultimate response to Wagner: the layout evokes musical notation, with voices rising and falling amid expectant silences.
The two spent an expectant moment in silence, as if they were actors strutting and fretting, each thinking that the other had forgotten the next line.
The maestoso chords return twice more, but after an expectant bar of silence they don't appear again, and the inward mood prevails, setting the stage for the great fifteen-minute Adagio that is the heart of the piece.
The knockout silenced the expectant home crowd and will damage Liverpudlian Price's aspirations of fighting for a world title before the end of the year.
I grunt in shops; and if I ever go out with friends, I'm always three beats behind the banter, and the words I want to say stumble on the unfamiliar journey from brain to mouth, before falling in clotted lumps into a silence very soon to change from expectant to disappointed.
