There was a single shot, loud and hot in the heavy silent air.

"There," he said, and the word hung in the still, silent air.

A weird, cold laugh that floated in the suddenly silent air.

The other waiting passengers were all asleep or staring into the silent air at the face of their own thoughts.

In the silent, late-morning air, the men waited, still unsure what it was they were to do.

A yard from the back of the little girl's head there was an object frozen in the silent air.

We stood on the front stoop, blinking in the bright, silent air.

He tried to scream and could produce only a glassy whisper of silent air.

The echo of its song still hung in the silent air.

It was a scream of horror that cut through the silent air.