She spoke to friends and neighbours to see if they could help but was met with nervous silence.

We sat in nervous silence for a few minutes.

The platoon, a moment before brought to a nervous silence, now cracks up again.

A nervous silence fell over the hall as the old man walked across the room and pushed open the door that led to the courtyard.

For many moments their reply was nervous silence, though they were obviously receiving.

But he then retreated into months of nervous silence.

That stunned the colonists in the radio room into a nervous silence.

We waited in nervous silence for the next, not knowing how many had been sent to prowl around our camp.

Jay pressed it, and they waited in nervous silence by the elevator.

For a moment, there was a nervous silence as the ghost passed.