4 examples of empty silence in sentences

In a truce of empty silence, the defenders slept by turns among the sand-bags.

She stood looking up blindly at the house, shivering again at the recollection of its echoing, empty silence.

When we have looked out upon the American rapids for many days, it is hard to remember contented life amid motionless surroundings; and so, when we have slept beside them for many nights, it is hard to think of happy sleep in an empty silence.

And then, sudden as summer thunder, through the dumb and empty silence, I heard clear and loud the clanging of the hammers of Prince Karl upon the gates of Thorn.

4 examples of  empty silence  in sentences