Idiom
dead silence
Meaning
A particularly notable/awkward silence or absence of response.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“When the teacher asked the question, there was dead silence.”
“I told a bad joke at the party, and it was met with dead silence.”
“After the politician finished his controversial speech, the room fell into a heavy, dead silence that lasted for several uncomfortable minutes.”
Examples
simple
“When the teacher asked the question, there was dead silence.”
contextual
“I told a bad joke at the party, and it was met with dead silence.”
complex
“After the politician finished his controversial speech, the room fell into a heavy, dead silence that lasted for several uncomfortable minutes.”
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