embarrassed silence
awkward silence
uncomfortable silence

When left alone, the two friends at first kept an embarrassed silence.

There was an embarrassed silence at the other end of the line.

There was a moment of embarrassed silence as the two left the room.

There was an embarrassed silence among the three women in front of the fire.

After he had gone, there was a moment's embarrassed silence.

His mother had stepped in to fill the embarrassed silence.

He continued to stare out the window, and finally I left his room in embarrassed silence.

And he went, the door swinging behind him, leaving an embarrassed silence between the two men.

The other officers looked at him in surprise and for a moment there was an embarrassed silence.

There was an embarrassed silence when I went back into the kitchen to tidy myself up.

They all stood there in embarrassed silence, as if the boy had run out suddenly naked.

Louise turned and went out of the room, leaving the two men to sit in embarrassed silence.

They laughed about it later or maintained an embarrassed silence.

He wandered back towards the table, where we all sat in embarrassed silence.

A moment of embarrassed silence, then: "But how long did it take to load?"

There was a long pause that almost grew into an embarrassed silence.

In the monitoring box there was a slightly embarrassed silence.

Apart from that she said little and during the first part of the meal we sat in embarrassed silence.

There was an embarrassed silence at the raw longing in her voice.

Agnes and the priest walked in embarrassed silence for a while.

The crowds stood in embarrassed silence and then melted away as if they had never been.

For the next several minutes an embarrassed silence reigned in the camp.

I was always the fellow in school or university who couldn't bear the long, embarrassed silence.

Brim felt his face flush and kept an embarrassed silence.

They stood in a little pool of embarrassed silence.

They looked at each other for a moment in an awkward silence.

We were both left in an awkward silence before going on with our business.

There was an awkward silence for what seemed a long time.

There was an awkward silence as the students looked at one another.

For a moment or two there was an awkward silence.

Then he let her go, and they stood together in awkward silence.

There was an awkward silence when my friends and I were told what he had said.

There was a long, awkward silence after I said that.

There was a moment of awkward silence, at that one.

He said nothing more and they continued on in awkward silence.

In the awkward silence, she ran a hand through her hair.

After that the three of them stood in awkward silence for a moment.

An awkward silence fell on the room after she had left.

They continued to look at each other, and another awkward silence developed.

There was an awkward silence while they all considered that.

An awkward silence had fallen for the last few minutes.

An awkward silence hung in the air for a moment.

They stood in awkward silence, not knowing what to do next.

"Tell me about your family," she said after a few more moments of awkward silence.

After a few seconds of this awkward silence, I had to say something.

"My father had his reasons," I said into the rather awkward silence.

"Yes, reading is very important to me," I said into the awkward silence.

After an awkward silence, Liz started to leave the room.

For the next few seconds, we sit in awkward silence.

There was a moment's awkward silence, then the old man nodded once again.

And what they saw brought them all to stunned silence.

A stunned silence had held the court a long moment.

There was stunned silence in the room for a moment.

Then there was what you might call a stunned silence.

There was a stunned silence, both inside and outside the common room.

They'd just sat for a long time in stunned silence.

For a moment there was a stunned silence on the line.

There was a stunned silence from the other end of the line.

There was a stunned silence in the room, then all of the women began talking at once.

And I sat there in a kind of stunned silence.

He took her hand, and they sat there for a moment in stunned silence.

The army of the West was on its feet again, watching, in stunned silence.

She looked at the others who were sitting there in stunned silence.

After a moment's stunned silence, the men began to plan for the coming attack.

When I'd finished, they sat looking at me in rather stunned silence.

The audience sat in stunned silence at the end of the play.

At one recent performance, there was a moment of stunned silence when the stage went dark.

I'd expected that to cause a stunned silence, and it did.

There was a stunned silence as the meaning of her words became clear.

There was a stunned silence when I broke the news to the men.

It was a rare moment, for the news media, of stunned silence.

That seemed to shock the others out of their stunned silence.

For a long moment they sat in mutual stunned silence.

They drew together in stunned silence, down among the trees.

They too stood in stunned silence, staring down at the body.