pregnant silence

Again there was a pregnant silence, then someone arose to ask a question.

I gave him half a minute, then interrupted his pregnant silence.

There was a thoughtful, pregnant silence on the line for a minute.

There was a tense, pregnant silence for a few moments.

She had often wondered what a pregnant silence was.

The thump seemed to echo in the pregnant silence that followed.

After a few minutes of pregnant silence, she turned and said, "The account is considerably higher than the amount mentioned."

There was a short pregnant silence, and Juliet could feel the uneasiness in the room.

There was a gasp, then a long, pregnant silence.

In the pregnant silence, no one said anything.

There was what you call a pregnant silence.

"Here's what's going on," Rome said, cutting through the sudden, pregnant silence.

His breath drew in, loud in the pregnant silence of this place.

There was another of those really pregnant silences.

There was a pregnant silence as the Imps sought to find a hole in his logic.

He remarked the pregnant silence of the forest.

Then there was a long pregnant silence of such a quality that I looked back to find Chance's eyes upon me, brooding and hot.

A more pregnant silence I've never heard.

Even the gallery that overlooked the whole chamber was engulfed in an eerie, pregnant silence.

His question met with a pregnant silence.

And there was the pregnant silence again.

There was a short, pregnant silence, and then Alien said, "Take charge.

Teras closed his eyes as he waited through a pregnant silence below.

"I believe the playwright has a direction in his script that says 'a pregnant silence followed,'" she said.

I have read between his lines and expanded on his pregnant silences," says the author.