Sentence examples for fraught silence from inspiring English sources

In one installment Gates writes, "It was Joanna who at last broke the fraught silence".

"Ho, hole, hode it," Mingus shouts, and the band clatters to fraught silence.

The Bushes organized their hands in fraught silence, sipping their cocktails, each waiting for the other to speak.

And then, as they entered — there was the tremendous animal odor of decay, the woman's hoarse moans, the famished children's fraught silence — she added, "Do what you can".

After a few moments of fraught silence, and at the encouraging of the jolly Ms. Sprinkle and the earnest Ms. Stephens, up came the shirts and on went the show.

All this research, of course, is a defense mechanism of sorts, a way of sidling up to the forbidding subject of her brother with the tools of her journalistic trade, a way of maintaining distance while searching for a pattern in the carpet and an answer to the riddle: Why has their relationship been so fraught with silences and arguments?

But "Young Blair" – Irvine's name for the prime minister, dating back to 1976, when Irvine gave him his first professional opening as a pupil barrister – was briefly silenced during a fraught meeting early in Labour's second term in which a worrying rise in the number of asylum cases was being discussed.

The train ride becomes fraught with danger, however, as the mob tries to silence her.

My days were crowded, fraught, often hilarious, sometimes dangerous -- and in the after-silence of a military action, with the body bags gathered around the command post like bundles of laundry, heartbreaking.

The White House was forced to defend its increasingly fraught relationship with Berlin on Monday as the Central Intelligence Agency maintained a conspicuous silence about new allegations linking it to a spying scandal involving a German intelligence official.

On the other hand, we witness, sometimes firsthand in the first blueprint of our parents' marriage, relationships that are either fraught with volatile conflict or defined by a chasm of resentment that looks like bored silence.