1.   A dead silence greeted this unusual flow of words from Mr van der Luyden.

2.   Complete silence greeted us as we entered the room.

3.   Benjamin and I turned, daggers drawn, staring into the shadows, but only silence greeted us as if assassination and murder were common events.

4.   A disinterested silence greeted the player introductions, and what crowd there was thinned early and sounded sedate at best.

5.   Carter asked, only to be greeted by silence.

6.   Silence greeted her call for stricter gun controls.

7.   Silence greets Brown when she visits the cinderblock City Hall.

8.   Silence greets Brown when she visits the cinder-block City Hall.

9.   But striking silences often greeted Clinton from the Republicans.

10.   Stunned silence greeted the announcement from the altar that the pope was too ill to come.