An impressive silence broods over the monstrous structure where such multitudes of men and women were wont to assemble in other days.

A silence broods over the scene that is depressing to the spirits.

A tense silence brooded over the pinelands, broken only by the occasional wailing call of a plowman.

Away for ever and for ever, away to the mysterious north, rolled the great bush ocean over which the silence brooded.

No. 2 tapped the gunner's shoulder and the sudden silence brooded with the stillness of death.

Over all brooded a silence as sinister as that of a sleeping serpent.

A strange silence brooded over the tunnel camp.

A cryptic silence brooded over all things, like the hush of some supernal doom.

Movement felt heavy and the silence brooded.

A silence as absolute as that of the forest brooded over the walls and minarets.