Sentence examples for lengthy silence from inspiring English sources

There was a lengthy silence from the sitting room.

There was a lengthy silence between Horimer and the Tree.

After a lengthy silence as the last note of the Mahler sounded, the applause eventually erupted.

"Someone should answer, I feel," he sighed after a lengthy silence.

I did find him immediately more likable once my parents broke their lengthy silence on their intentions for us.

Several grow restless and one or two heckle, in the lengthy silence that follows the in-house MC and Parker's introductory rhetoric.

Two other acclaimed living playwrights have also maintained lengthy silences.

Eventually stop". Jackson Mac Low's "Lucas 1990" (1990) is a series of aphoristic bursts of music separated by lengthy silences.

Towards the end, some childish jiggery-pokery involving two lengthy silences rather undermines the pair's thoughtful approach, but for the most part Drawn from Life is beguiling.

The team and its owner have long been mysterious (one of Davis's players once compared him to Greta Garbo), but the lengthy silences were taken to mean that Davis was concocting some ingenious scheme — a new offense, a surprise draft choice, even moving the whole team to Los Angeles, which he did in 1982 for 13 years and has threatened to do again.

There was a lengthy Beckettian silence.