A tight, brittle silence held all the men at the firing wall.

There was a sharp, brittle silence before either of them moved.

He did not speak again, nor had she any reason to break the brittle silence lying between them.

From behind her, up at the head of the pass, there came the distant shrilling of a warning whistle, followed by a brittle waiting silence.

Chekov stared at Scott in brittle silence, his face blank, his back rigid.

In the brittle silence of the forest clearing, Miach said, very clearly, "Hear me.

A brittle electric silence fell on the large room.

After a brittle silence, she asked, "What you want?"

She had expected music on the bridge, not a brittle silence.

Usara cleared his throat in the brittle silence.