11.   The dead silence was broken only by a regular drip, drip, drip.

12.   The only sound to break the silence of the night was the soft mutter of my engine.

13.   The refrigerator hummed its usual little tune to break the silence and Donna drank her coffee.

14.   The roar of a furnace engine broke the silence.

15.   The silence is tentatively broken by the skylarks but they soon give up.

16.   The silence was broken by a loud scream.

17.   The sound of a car engine broke the silence.

18.   The sound of stockinged legs moving across the room finally broke the silence.

19.   Then one of them would break the silence.

20.   They climbed the eighty steps to the house, Anne breaking the silence only to return the greetings of people they passed.