pregnant silence

After a few minutes of pregnant silence, she turned and said, "The account is considerably higher than the amount mentioned."

Again there was a pregnant silence, then someone arose to ask a question.

There was a thoughtful, pregnant silence on the line for a minute.

The thump seemed to echo in the pregnant silence that followed.

There was a short pregnant silence, and Juliet could feel the uneasiness in the room.

There was a tense, pregnant silence for a few moments.

Teras closed his eyes as he waited through a pregnant silence below.

She had often wondered what a pregnant silence was.

I gave him half a minute, then interrupted his pregnant silence.

"I believe the playwright has a direction in his script that says 'a pregnant silence followed,'" she said.