The atmosphere on campus was desolate and preternaturally quiet by Monday afternoon.

This subterranean world had been preternaturally quiet except for my own footsteps and increasingly heavier breathing.

The line was laser straight, unmoving and preternaturally quiet.

Those ten seconds seemed preternaturally quiet to jorn, despite the screaming of the atmosphere and the clangor of the missiles against the hull.

When I entered the house of Antonia a half hour later the demesne was preternaturally quiet.

Everyone was preternaturally quiet and self-possessed, pallid as death, the very breath subconsciously suppressed.

Classes are preternaturally quiet and focused.

Beyond, the city was preternaturally quiet, the way New York could be, early Sunday mornings.

Gregor was preternaturally quiet by choice when permitted to be.

He seemed to be moving through a preternaturally quiet city.