| There were a few uneasy seconds of awkward silence, everyone looking at Christine with apprehension. |
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| There was an almost awkward silence, in which a thousand words were exchanged, but none were truly spoken. |
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| In fact, the awkward silence lasted until I took Jessie's advice and dumped Marie a block away from the party. |
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| They don't stare at me in awkward silence when a button pops open on the upper part of my blouse. |
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| The two leaned against the bar in awkward silence until Claire came bopping over. |
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| There was an awkward silence where it was only broken by the horse's occasional snorts. |
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| For a moment, there was an awkward silence, and color flooded Perrine's face. |
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| He fought not to fidget or shuffle his feet at the awkward silence that lay between them after their shared poem. |
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| There was much awkward silence at a recent congregation of Harvard grads gathered to wish him well. |
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| There was a moment of awkward silence until a phone ringing made them all jump, then they laughed, embarrassed that they were so easily startled. |
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| Finally, after a few seconds of awkward silence, the leftmost one finally spoke. |
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| Father Gregory was used to the awkward silence of penitents, especially those who had not confessed in years. |
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| Yet in my winding down from work I feel compelled to continue filling the awkward silence with inane conversation. |
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| After that, an awkward silence once again filled the room, until finally Lia finally blurted it out. |
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| There was a moment in our conversation when both of us fumbled for words and fell into a brief, awkward silence. |
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| We stood there in awkward silence, shuffling our feet gawkily like ducks do when they are hungry. |
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| For a few moments there was an awkward silence, only tainted by the loud music and screaming voices coming from the other rooms. |
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| The thousands of spectators lining the fairway fell into an awkward silence, all eyes on me. |
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| I could tell he was just trying to cut through the awkward silence that would have filled the air, so I let it pass. |
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| Her cousin's voice penetrated the awkward silence, and of course, he didn't notice the tension in the foyer. |
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| There was an awkward silence and then the band began to strike up. |
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| When an awkward silence falls over the room, he tries to inject levity. |
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| When you have answered the question, don't keep talking to fill an awkward silence. |
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| An awkward silence momentarily fills the room. |
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| Every nervous giggle, coy look, awkward silence and meaningless remark is captured, rather prettily, by the film's director, cinematographer and co-writer, Conrad Jackson. |
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