After that, there has been a resounding silence, with only a single one (in 1901) for nearly 500 years.

This year, by contrast, there was a resounding silence.

And there was this resounding silence down the telephone.

Breakdowns was published to a resounding silence.

The vast majority of new books hit the bookshop not with a bang or even with a dull thud, but with a resounding silence.