21.   Dead silence.

22.   Even some callers to paging services got busy signals, recordings, or simply a dead silence.

23.   Even some callers to paging services got busy signals, recordings or simply a dead silence.

24.   Executive producer David E. Kelley watches in dead silence as Dylan McDermott and Lara Flynn Boyle shoot an intense courtroom scene.

25.   First there was dead silence.

26.   For a moment, there is dead silence.

27.   I looked in his ear and read off the letters, and there was dead silence.

28.   I thought we had won, but there was dead silence on the radio for three or four seconds.

29.   I thought there would be a thunderous reception, but there was dead silence.

30.   It arrived not with the resounding boom expected from a hammer of justice, but in dead silence.