1.   And right about then, a loud crackle interrupts the silence.

2.   A curious buzzing of swarming insects interrupted the silence.

3.   Fewer birds interrupted the silence and blooming flowers were rare.

4.   He called on a cellphone on Friday afternoon, and static interrupted a silence rarely heard from the walk-on-turned public speaker.

5.   Only a Lebanese Red Cross ambulance interrupted the silence as it screeched through the square and veered south along the road toward the fighting.

6.   The weak coughs of the youngsters interrupted the silence.