Sentence examples for nervous silence from inspiring English sources

There was a nervous silence.

A nervous silence immediately permeates the room.

They chatted and laughed or waited in nervous silence.

But he then retreated into months of nervous silence.

For a few seconds nervous silence hung over the room.

We, the audience, sat in nervous silence in a tiny dark room, and waited.

There was some nervous laughter, then silence again.

If their pens still wavered, Robbie got nervous in the silence.

The proposed role of nrsf/rest is that of a transcriptional silencer that restricts neuronal gene expression to the nervous system by silencing their expression in non-neural tissues [ 98].

But in many cases, when harassment happens it is met with silence from nervous onlookers and there are no repercussions for the attacker.

The raucous pub downstairs is soon forgotten as the doors quietly close and the enveloping silence creates nervous expectation.