1.   Just as the audience grew quiet, the unmistakable ring of a cellular phone emanated from the last row of the theater.

2.   Mzukwa grew quiet as he recalled the brutality and sadism of the prison guards.

3.   The silence grew very quiet and the occasional noises very loud and they began to belong.

4.   Then, as he placed the net on the table, the wildly chattering monkey grew quiet.

5.   And everything would grow quiet and you could hear the long howl of a chained dog, abandoned by his owner.

6.   And then the cemetery will grow quiet again, Dittmar said, with only a handful of daily visits.

7.   As a child, Richard Williams would grow quiet, wiggling to the edge of his seat when the newsreel came on at the movie house.

8.   As the family got down to the business of dinner, the table grew quiet.

9.   As he groped for words, his voice cracking, the room grew quiet.