Sentence examples for silence interrupted from inspiring English sources
The scene plays in virtual silence, interrupted only by the repeated pistol shots.
Silence, interrupted only by the periodic violent howls of the wind and animal mewls and bleats, pervades the otherworldly landscape of "Desert Dream".
So when the runners reach this stretch, "they are met with silence, interrupted only by the rustling of the fall leaves on the street or the muted sounds of small hands clapping.
"Isn't it amazing," she said, walking up to a dirty air-conditioner, "how you can be so close to technology and so alienated by it?" The response was a wall of silence interrupted by a few knowing laughs.
And like villages I'd seen in northern Italy, it was remarkably quiet in the late afternoon, the silence interrupted only by distant strains of music, which I recognized as dechovka, or Czech polka music.
It begins in silence, interrupted by the screech of minimalist composer La Monte Young's 2 Sounds, which comprises the sound of ashtrays scraped against a mirror, and that of pieces of wood rubbed against a Chinese gong.
There were four more moments of silence interrupting the annual reading of the names of those who had died at the trade center — for when each tower fell and for the attack on the Pentagon and the crash of Flight 93 into a field in Pennsylvania, killing all 40 passengers and crew members.
Long periods of silence were interrupted by minutes of gunfire and explosions.
The street stretches into the distance in either direction, its silence occasionally interrupted by a jogger puffing heavily behind condensing breath".
For a year motor racing has remained stunned, all involved unable to erase from their own heads that silence only interrupted by the dread flutter flutter flutter of the ambulance helicopter.
But here and there, the dark and the silence are interrupted by a building pulsating with rock or blues, or a downtown shop where guitar strumming can be heard from inside and people crowd the sidewalk outside.
