1.   As soon as the band started playing, the crowd went silent.

2.   The pub went silent as the villagers digested the news.

3.   And the cow bells had gone silent.

4.   And most tellingly, The King of Beepers has gone silent.

5.   As if on command, then, the whippoorwills go silent all together.

6.   Astronomers have located the missing SOHO spacecraft, which suddenly went silent a month ago while observing the Sun.

7.   Boisterous groups round a corner at a quilt show or in a church, see the quilt and go silent.

8.   Bonzi Wells and Damon Stoudamire went silent with the media after two days of practice in Oregon.

9.   A smaller bell rings and the room goes silent.

10.   After that, he pretty much went silent on the subject of stock prices.