Sentence examples for shocking silence from inspiring English sources

The phrase "shocking silence" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which there is an unexpected and uncomfortable lack of sound or noise. For example, "The crowd was stunned by the sudden, shocking silence that filled the room after the shouting stopped."

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He closed with a moment of musical theatre, leaving the stage and letting his loops and riffs build towards a moment of ear-shattering intensity - and then cutting off abruptly, leaving a shocked and shocking silence.

The shocking silence on the stage — the fact that no one challenged this outrage — also tells me that this kind of slur is not regarded as a big deal.

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From our business leaders and elected representatives we get shocking and inexcusable silence, apathy and inaction.

The silence was shocking, and restorative: they reverted to adults.

When Becca is stunned into numb silence by a shocking revelation, Ms. Parker's animated features freeze into a guarded, unreadable mask.

A help line for women to 'break the silence' about the shocking treatment they get has just been launched.

More than 200 writers, including several guests of the festival, signed a PEN International statement condemning the "enforced silence" as a "deeply shocking" violation of free speech.

You guessed it, just like so many others, I was crushed and silenced from such a shocking election cycle defeat.

It would be shocking if a woman were bullied into silence.

Dr Ferrand described a "culture of silence" and said the "most shocking" aspect of her research was that nearly all the older children and adolescents who have tested positive could have been diagnosed earlier.

Emboldened by his silence, her outpourings become ever more shocking as she rails against men, war, marriage and God.

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