Sentence examples for protracted silence from inspiring English sources
Another protracted silence.
Nearby, in a saloon car, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Kierston Wareing sit in protracted silence.
After a protracted silence, he exclaimed, "This is such an easy dish!" at full voice, to no one in particular.
When I said, late in the call, "Hey, am I the only person on the line who's actually been shot in one of these things?," there was a protracted silence.
Yet he is clearly tough, resourceful, calm; when he finally says something into the sputtering radio transmitter, there is an amusing moment when he has to cough and clear his throat, like all people who try speaking after protracted silence.
She doesn't mind the tension that arises from protracted silences.
Unlike "Rubicon" — a relatively new series on AMC whose dark cinematography and protracted silences are steeped in the tradition of the paranoia films of the 1970s — "The Event" is bright and showy and too in thrall to its own hysteria to feel unsettling.
In particular, at a fixed moderate frequency of light stimulation, increasing pulse width resulted in transient activation and protracted silencing of regular-spiking interneurons, but excitatory principal/pyramidal cells or subsets of fast-spiking neuronal populations were more resistant to depolarization block.
As a student, he drove a flatmate crazy with his protracted silences at the breakfast table.
The Republicans have taken the president's protracted silences and his unwillingness to let us in on process, as opportunities to say a lot with little or no rebuttal from the other side.
