1.   But for the occasional bitow to the rear of the crowd, the Swan was a vacuum of utter silence.

2.   For a moment there was utter silence.

3.   He had gone from shouting to silence, utter silence, and had walked out of the house.

4.   The utter silence fell like a loud explosion.

5.   The young people were draped about the furniture or lay in couples on the floor in utter silence whilst the firelight flickered.

6.   To go on with the utter silence or to break the silence, pretending nothing had happened.

7.   We padded through those quiet, leafy roads in utter silence.

8.   When designer Rei Kawakubo tucks pillows under blouses and shows her collection in utter silence, simple clothes become disconcerting theater.

9.   The next ten minutes passed in utter silence.

10.   The rasp of the zip going down was illogically loud in the utter silence of the night.