The girls stood up at once, and became silent.

The audience - perhaps twenty-five all told - had become dead silent.

What has happened, however, is that I have become very silent.

The whole theater had become dead silent, holding its breath.

Soon even the children became silent and began to pay attention to the confrontation.

Since 1930, word of the composer and his works has become increasingly silent.

The dog barked three times with increased energy and became silent.

Then he let himself down again, and became silent.

Mason caught the look in the detective's eye and became silent.

He knew what she was referring to and became silent.