31.   Instead, it has probed the heavens with regularity and heard nothing but a dead silence.

32.   Sometimes there is dead silence.

33.   The first time Peggy told Harry she loved him, there was dead silence.

34.   Their locker room was filled mostly with dead silence.

35.   There was dead silence.

36.   There was dead silence on the other end.

37.   While the passengers wait in dead silence, a man sitting in front of Sherry whips out his cell phone, calls his office and kicks some verbal butt.

38.   Because the calls can connect before a telemarketer is available to make a pitch, people sometimes hear dead silence or recorded hang-ups on answering machines.

39.   There was dead silence when the Americans won.