1.   A sudden silence fell over the room.

2.   All at once he was disturbed by a sudden silence.

3.   At the mention of Hilary Frome a sudden silence fell over the room.

4.   At the mention of John, a sudden silence fell on the room.

5.   In the sudden silence Isabel thought she could almost hear the life of the garden, preparing for its spring blossoming.

6.   In the sudden silence that followed, she realized that something was wrong.

7.   She had been impelled to go and find him because of the sudden silence from his burrow under the eaves.

8.   The Poole family, grouped rather self-consciously round the birthday cake on Earth, lapsed into a sudden silence.

9.   Noisy in the sudden silence.

10.   He fell into a sudden silence, as if to underline the deep injustice of such a prospect.