There was a dead silence below, for Hilary and his men were taken by surprise, and though the hatch was now open there was such a terrible display of weapons in the opening that an attempt to rush up seemed madness.
A dead silence ensued, during which he could feel the heavy throb, throb of his heart and the hard labouring of his breath, for his exertions had been tremendous.
For some minutes afterwards there was a dead silence.
Mr. Raby shook his head; and there was a dead silence.
He came home pale and disturbed, and sat by the fireside in dead silence.
She stood looking at her pupil for a moment in dead silence, and then left the room.
He stood in dead silence, and confronted his wife, with a scrutiny that was terrible in its unnatural self-possession, and that enveloped her steadily in one comprehensive look from head to foot.
He left his seat, impenetrably deaf to all Allan's efforts at rallying him on his extraordinary answer, and resumed his restless pacing of the deck in dead silence.
Without uttering a word, he came up to where the young man was lying, and bent over him in dead silence, as if unconscious that any other human being was near.
For some minutes past a dead silence and a deep, absorbed attention had received the young man's words; but that quiet question was like a great stone descending suddenly on a silent stream.
There are people with memories so constructed that what they said, and another did not contradict or even answer, seems to them, upon retrospect, to have been delivered by that other person, and received in dead silence by themselves.
The sound of running feet and loud voices stopped and was followed by a dead silence.
Plates would rattle in the hands of the dish-washers, and drawers open and close with a clatter; but soon the sound of receding steps would be heard and a dead silence begin to reign.
Solitude, helplessness, dead silence--and shadows, a host of shadows.
There was a dead silenceas the vicar, whose face was of an ashen pallor, looked straight before him at vacancy, while Mrs Glaire sat watching him, with her hand placed to her side.
Here there was a dead silence, and Barker broke it by saying-- "Had they not better draw lots?
La Gale communicated this to Vizard, and they drove along in dead silence.
They listened in dead silence; but when Harrington had done, Fanny said aside to Zoe, "It is all her own fault.
Miss Dover was a proficient in this graceful form of refusal by dead silence, and resistance by placid inertia.
At first there was a dead silence, and he was beginning to hope that he had been mistaken, but not for long.
There was a dead silence as Wyatt entered, and after a glance round he spoke.
He stood before the insensible figure with his arms folded, amid a dead silence, broken only by the stifled sobs of Sarah Wilson, and of a sociable housemaid who cried with her for company.
Both the Wardlaws were in full dress, according to the invariable custom of the house; and sat in a dead silence, that seemed natural to the great sober room.
It is easy to divest words of their meaning by false intonation; and prisoners in general receive this bit of singsong in dead silence.
He listened in dead silence to all that the reporter had to say; when Triffitt had finished he looked apathetically at his superior.
Burchill made a dramatic pause, looking impressively around him amidst a dead silence.
There was a short pause, a dead silence ensued--but it was only for a moment, and before the police could recover themselves and load again, a furious rush was made upon them by the enraged populace.
For some minutes there was a dead silence, for both Harold and Disco felt intuitively that to offer consolation or hope were out of the question.
A dead silence followed, but it was deemed advisable not to venture in to see the effect, as men had frequently lost their lives by so doing.
The first few seconds of dead silence, with which this was received, were succeeded by a long and loud burst of applause, the heartiness of which plainly showed that the scene far exceeded the expectations of the men.
There was instantly a dead silencein the cabin, and a long, loud wail from the dogs was heard outside.
For a few seconds a dead silence reigned, for the men were stricken dumb with genuine amazement at the scene before them.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dead silence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
