No sound came to him through the leaf; all around was intense silence.

When he had finished, there was a moment's intense silence, then his mother stood and walked across to him.

They stood in the intense silence of the barn, listening.

I cannot describe to you the intense silence of the night.

There was a moment of intense silence, and then the applause began.

The audience regarded him with an intense, curious silence, as if they were not sure what he had said to them.

She could feel the intense silence and darkness outside the car.

The silence in dead cities was' so much more intense, he reflected, than that on the open desert.

I was just filling space, breaking the intense silence, by saying it.

The words sounded forced, leaving an even more intense silence behind them.