Sentence examples for silence hangs from inspiring English sources

A tense silence hangs over family gatherings.

It is late morning in what is left of the northern Iraqi village of Bashir and silence hangs heavy in the air.

With the vast sound cut off, just like that, the silence hangs like fog in the empty hall, thick as syrup.

For more than 20,000 words, the woman barely speaks, and her silence hangs heavily over the story as Conrad roots around the insides of a man whose very being is called into question when his wife leaves him, only to return a short while later.

The silence hangs there, one second, two seconds, ten seconds, and like so many others before, Mr. A wonders if this suggestion is crazy, if he has blown his chance.

Silence hangs between them until Pearl's face stretches in horror.

He lets a silence hang.

Silence hung in the air.

A heavy silence hung over the audience.

For a few seconds nervous silence hung over the room.

I paused, and we let silence hang between us again.