21.   To go on with the utter silence or to break the silence, pretending nothing had happened.

22.   When a proposal or statement is followed by a period of silence, the person who breaks the silence loses - wrong!

23.   Hugh broke the silence.

24.   The silence was broken by the sound of footsteps in the hallway.

25.   Then Jane broke the silence.

26.   Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher broke her silence on the issue during a visit to the United States.

27.   Only the music and the hiss of burning wood broke the silence.

28.   Enoch Powell sat hunched and brooding, breaking his silence only to pass the time of day with John Biffen.

29.   Eventually the accumulation of it forced her to break the silence.

30.   After about half a minute the Commander broke the silence.