During that hour, I had to be absolutely pin-drop quiet.

Anywhere else, the question would very likely be met with pin-drop silence.

But the pin-drop moments came when Woods spoke about lying to himself.

It might take a while before our on-the-go conversations are pin-drop clear, though.

His mode of speaking was polished, everyone listened with a pin-drop silence.

The street had seemed pin-drop quiet, but it clearly wasn't, for it was quieter still inside the park.

The secretary's whisper carried in the pin-drop silence.

It’s also pin-drop tranquil, teeming with wildlife and, in places, challenging to reach.

And although it was viewed on first night in pin-drop silence, few today would be outraged by Bond's hellish scene.

Apparently it's popular with City boys, but on a Tuesday lunchtime it was pin-drop quiet.

- There was another of those pin-drop silences.

There was pin-drop silence for about three seconds and then my friend said: “India is half Asian.”

The house was pin-drop still: after the lethal farce of the previous night it had regained its composure.

Mrs. Fink described the neighborhood as "pin-drop quiet" and said her family had been shaken with fear.

"There was pin-drop silence for some minutes.

Ever since their marriage, the two of them had performed the sexual act infrequently, in total darkness, pin-drop silence and almost complete immobility.

"I always knew growing up that as an American, there was nothing I could not strive for," he said to pin-drop silence.

The room had fallen pin-drop quiet.

The hum of the presentation screen coming down was barely perceptible, accentuating the pin-drop silence in the room.

On Wednesday, when he first used the line about corn counting as an amber wave of grain, he was met with pin-drop silence.

The tent was pin-drop quiet; I focused on what I imagined to be the sound of my own sweating.

As soon as they heard my heels clicking down the corridor they all got in their places and there was pin-drop silence.

The street was pin-drop hushed.

Perhaps the best indicator of the Jets' mood came in Wednesday's practice, which was conducted in nearly pin-drop quiet.

Evershot village is a school-summer-holiday time warp – the kind of pin-drop place you stop for petrol en route to the coast.