After a silent beat of stunned horror, the spectators began a hilarious riot of cheering.

Several silent beats pass before the Fillmore audience erupts in riotous applause.

The comedy comes from his neck and his shoulders, and from the scene's silent beat.

Soval and the other Vulcan dignitaries stood for a long silent beat.

(represented as eight pulses; 'u' indicates a silent beat).

There was a silent beat, then, "Rachel's the same? "

Flapping huge wings with slow, silent beats to break their advance, they landed softly on the terrace of the hunter chief's residence.

This one note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence, comforts me.

Jesse felt a dull shock, and the rapid silent beat of her heart against her throat.

To give a measure of silent beats, as orchestral or choral conductors often do, is not standard.