1.   The room grew silent as we all digested this nugget of wisdom.

2.   When I approached, they grew silent.

3.   I grew silent, wondering about the life around me.

4.   As his grades plummeted, Cruz fought with his teachers and grew silent at home.

5.   Asked for a solution, Brown grows silent.

6.   After calling upon legislators to abolish principal tenure in the first months of his own tenure, the schools chancellor has more recently grown silent on the topic.

7.   But then the gregarious Goldberg grew strangely silent.

8.   Coaches swarmed around Miller as she grabbed her right knee, and the crowd at the FleetCenter grew silent.

9.   Even Lima, a person prone to lively rhetoric, is growing silent.

10.   For when the clock strikes midnight, the city grows silent, the residents fall into an unwakeable sleep and The Strangers go prowling.