31.   We walked to the center of Grozny, which was enveloped in an eerie silence.

32.   We heard the eerie silence as the giant spacecraft lifted from its pad.

33.   What I first noticed was an eerie silence.

34.   What jars most here these days is the eerie silence in a place that usually resounds with the gruff bleating of sheep.

35.   When a wind is not blowing, the eerie silence is nearly total, broken occasionally by the cry of a bird.

36.   When he told his family, he said, there was an eerie silence.

37.   When the swaying stopped, there was an eerie silence in the enclosed press box.

38.   Witnesses described an eerie silence after the boom of the suicide bombing here, just outside the Maestro Bar.

39.   A eerie silence prevailed in the normally bustling downtown shopping area.

40.   An eerie silence hangs over Blazishte and dozens of other virtually deserted towns in the Kardzhali region of southern Bulgaria.