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How to use dead air in a sentence

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To avoid panicking its audience by having any dead air at all, between songs in individual sets it'll cut away to interviews with other bands.
Since we get about ten of these throughout the film, that means there are almost 50 seconds of blank, dead air on the disc.
Radio producers consider dead air time even more of a sin than their television counterparts do.
McDermott and Margulies leave a lot of dead air in their commentaries, but the featurettes are enlightening.
Move the slider on your media player forward to avoid the 7 or so minutes of dead air.
I wonder just how much of the constant stream of inane chat that drives me nuts on TV, or on the radio, is down to the need to avoid dead air?
We had to build it that way because in the broadcast world, dead air is a sin.
After an interminable stretch of dead air while the cellular connection went through and my bowels tied themselves in knots, the number rang.
The frantic battering of the fireflies and the dull click of the demon's hooves sounded like thunder against the heavy, dead air.
A lot of dead air, in between three liberal radio hosts congratulating each other on how clever they are.
The signal cut off, leaving only dead air as Murphy continued to call out to Carly.
Only the instant prompting of campaign staffers, clapping furiously around the room, sparked enough applause to rescue the candidate from dead air.
The first by director Robert Altman, production designer Stephen Altman, and producer David Levy is interesting but contains a great deal of dead air.
D' Onofrio and Zellweger deliver their dialogue in a manner that is too choppy, too halting, with just a beat too much dead air between each line.
But Kylie was already gone, leaving only dead air at the end of the line.
Despite their legendarily long sets, there's usually never more than a few seconds of dead air between songs, time enough for Dallas to thank the appreciative audience.
As a result, even though everything's been primed and prepared and her only task is to read off of the teleprompter, she realized we had about 45 seconds of dead air.
You can tell when a commercial break was mandated, as the screen fades to black and pulls up from dead air to reintroduce the drama, post advertisement slot.
Avoid dead air between songs. Even if it is a very subtle bass line in the background, you don't want a dead stop in the middle of the show.
Some of the features of Teck cable are its flexibility and ease of installation. Absence of dead air space within cable increases heat transfer and mini-mizes condensation.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The last crack of a triphammer, peckering at a giant pile of iron down the112 block, dies out on the dead air.
All was dark and still inside, and a gust of dead air struck him in the face.
Taffy shrunk back, as a draught of the close, dead air struck his nostrils.
Within the half-hour the night had grown oppressively hot and the dead air was like that of an oven.
For the first time since the forest fires had begun to smoulder, the dead air took a sense of motion.
The last crack of a triphammer, peckering at a giant pile of iron down the block, dies out on the dead air.
Again the man sniffed the dead air and, swinging the rifle into the crook of his elbow, continued toward the grub-shack.
Was it a mere thrill of the dead air, too slight to be heard, but quivering in every spiritual sense?
It was almost as if he felt that the passengers would become desperately bored if presented with five minutes of dead air.
And after nearly a quarter of a century, he sure knows how to keep dead air out of a gig.
In going for ultra-realism, this is less a feature film and more a fly-on-the-wall slice of life which, as you may expect, means a lot of dead air where nothing happens.
He wanted a scoop and ended up with dead air and egg on his face.
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