Prentiss watched in hostile silence and sat down before the panel.

They sat in crackling hostile silence for the best part of twenty minutes.

The three young people stood in a rather hostile and malodorous silence waiting for something to happen.

The women studied him in hostile silence as he went past.

The hostile silence lingered for an embarrassing length of time.

The absence of the radio filled the air with a hostile silence.

They sat without looking at each other; the hostile silence was palpable between them.

There was a deep, almost hostile silence between them.

At first, they'd worked in silence, but it wasn't a hostile silence.

A full minute of hostile silence passed before he said, "My folks died on the same day.