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Discover LudwigThe phrase "extended silence" is correct and commonly used in written English
It refers to a long period of quietness or lack of noise. Example: The room fell into an extended silence as they waited for the results to be announced.
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After a particularly extended silence, Mr. Newhouse drew a breath.
The extended silence is unusual for Stoudemire, but the Knicks are secretive about player health.
There was an extended silence as our lies stood up to his mild scrutiny about as well as a news editor's morning schedule by 7 o'clock the same evening.
When I finish reading the poem, there's now a drop in temperature, moments of extended silence, then people kick into life and clap and cheer, as if they want to identify themselves straight away, adding their vigorous voice.
Yet it's key to Paterson's character that he's a driver and not, say, working on a construction crew; he's got a job of extended silence and a strangely public solitude, not a sociable job of teamwork where his poetic, intellectual difference might stick out.
When I asked him what it was like to sit on the witness stand, knowingly fabricating a story that could have resulted in their executions, Dick let out an audible sigh that seemed to say, "I know you're not going to believe this," and, after an extended silence, replied, "It didn't cross my mind that I was lying; I believed what I was saying was true".
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He would come out every 15 minutes or so when he heard cheering or to investigate extended silences.
There are extended silences as they dip their needles into what look like squares of tapestry, though they say – imagine how scratchy – they are working on undergarments.
It's this propensity for gloom that makes Sadness Is a Blessing such a heartbreaker and the classy Tarik Saleh-directed video – all European cinema-style extended silences and stares – serves to bring more of that out.
In the kitchen an eerie soundtrack by Mr. Morente combines the bellowing of cante jondo, or deep song, that echoes in García Lorca's writings with the tolling of bells and extended silences.
There are extended silences during which Durr said he was checking Rall's ID and filling out the citation.
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