Sentence examples for freezing silence from inspiring English sources

But then, the idea of him scrabbling under wires, clambering through wet sand, being wrapped in plastic to throw off the sniffer dogs, huddling in freezing silence and hanging on to the bottom of a giant truck all just to get to the UK is almost worse.

But then, the idea of him scrabbling under wires, clambering through wet sand, being wrapped in plastic to throw off the sniffer dogs, huddling in freezing silence and hanging on to the bottom of a giant lorry all just to get to the UK is almost worse.

But slowly, with long freezing silences broken only by scraping cutlery.

For about forty minutes, we sat in frozen silence.

Today a frozen silence stretches from Tehran to Washington.

But he just stood there in frozen silence, a you're-not-from-these-parts look on his face.

After this outburst, while Lord Grubstone and his guests sat in frozen silence, the narrator and his wife left.

The strange feeling of absence that prevailed in the frozen silence here had to do with the secrecy and evil of the place's conception, and with its permanent abandonment, in shame, after its author was gone.

In airports across the country, stranded travelers got their bearings from television screens flashing very different images: the frozen silence of departure monitors listing every flight as canceled, and news channels endlessly replaying the fiery chaos at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

They want to take you everywhere – up with the lark, through the moonlit Alps, back to ancient Egypt, into space where the stars glint in the frozen silence, below tides where the fish quiver in the see-through world of his watercolour paint.

In the taxi to the airport, the formerly enraptured couple sits apart in frozen silence.