Sentence examples for a beat of silence from inspiring English sources

What happened?" A beat of silence.

A beat of silence filled the space between us.

A beat of silence while his mother worked out what to say, which meant it was bad, which was, come to think of it, obvious.

Even if the response is affirmative, something may feel like no: an extra beat of silence, a strong sucking in of the breath, a muttered "I will try, but it will be difficult". If so, the deal is probably not sealed.

Quigley leaves the story in its proper place, in the beat of silence before the baton comes down.

In that hard-won beat of silence that separated the descent of the curtain from the avalanche of applause that followed, I knew we had scored an absolute bullseye.

Advertising takes up almost every beat of silence and unoccupied surface in this country — aren't millennials onto something by demanding a more civil approach?

It is the pictorial equivalent of a musical beat of complete silence and it conveys with such potency the confused profundity of his feelings that there seems little point in asking him to expand further in person.

There's a brief beat of magical silence.

A beat passed in silence.

In October, a group of fans disrupted a moment of silence before Turkey beat Iceland, 1-0, in a Euro 2016 qualifier.