1.   For a few minutes she stood in shocked silence.

2.   There was a moment of shocked silence.

3.   There was a shocked silence as he spoke.

4.   Paige, who had remained in a shocked silence as revelation had poured on revelation, rediscovered her voice.

5.   At first there was shocked silence, then exclamations of disbelief, then rumors.

6.   At a downtown theater that showed newsreels, sort of the CNN of the day, there was a shocked silence for a moment when the news was announced.

7.   For several moments there was only shocked silence, and then an unearthly scream.

8.   I rapidly learned that the kind of four-letter words that pepper conversations in London are met with shocked silence in Manhattan.

9.   The parents, friends and townspeople who had made the five-hour drive from Ocean County, N.J., for the game stood in shocked silence.

10.   The Serbian regime responded in shocked silence.