churchlike silence.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : churchlike silence.    From Dictionary.com. 

There were big, churchlike buildings everywhere where the kids took classes.    From Wordnik.com.  [EARL -The Autobiography of DMX]

'Her voice had a churchlike incantation which dropped crystals of ice down my back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cider With Rosie]

In the background were all these nice stone churchlike buildings, with arched windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Dude] Reference

The main sitting room of the huge mansion had been converted into a churchlike sanctuary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Omnibus]

The atmosphere was subdued, hushed and churchlike: people were on their very best behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hilary Lambert: My Voting Kentucky Voting Story] Reference

The hospital building was four stories high, plain straw-colored brick and large churchlike windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cradle and All]

Relax at the vast Caldea spa, whose glass, churchlike spire is a landmark in the capital, Andorra la Vella.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andorra] Reference

Guitarist Lenny Kaye and former Television frontman Tom Verlaine also turned out for the churchlike performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punk Icon Patti Smith Waxes Poetic at Robert Miller Gallery] Reference

The construction was vaguely churchlike: a faux apse, a faux nave with a big stained-glass window filled with blocks of rich color.    From Wordnik.com.  [I is for Innocent]

But what delighted the women, causing them to squeal in un-churchlike merriment, was the fact that he appeared for the first time clean-shaven.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centennial]

But there were unoccupied desks in the structures group and a churchlike quiet in the metals group and in the adjoining metallurgical laboratory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Past Through Tomorrow]

Dr. Gillett says if the bill had been promptly put to vote it would probably have been passed, but the churchlike silence was broken by a shrill voice piping forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut] Reference

It is the churchlike atmosphere of sanctuary that draws him, the mute devotion of his fellow worshippers, and the disinterested good nature of the performing priestesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Absolute Friends]

This time, he's gone beyond the rich allegory of His Dark Materials and the battle of good versus evil (with a churchlike institution — known as "the Magisterium" — firmly on the side of evil).    From Wordnik.com.  [A Resurrection] Reference

Going out for meals was a rare treat, usually confined to birthdays, or on holiday where the atmosphere in the hotel dining room was almost churchlike, with everyone talking incredibly quietly, like priests in the confessional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fathers & Sons] Reference

The Village's main meeting room looks very un-churchlike.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

He would have churchlike silence in order to express his feelings, and she kept it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Carrie: a Novel] Reference

In her self-titled debut, it was tempered by the music of 1960s girl groups; a sparse, churchlike aura accompanied the follow-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [East Bay Express] Reference

Woods brings a rock-star aura to golf's often churchlike setting, not only in sheer numbers of spectators but also in their volume.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

Obama's will obviously be different than the large-scale, almost churchlike (yes-we-can!) speeches we've been used to seeing during the campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gawker] Reference

The hush was solemn and churchlike, save for a distant battery that, evidently unable to remain quiet, sent a faint rolling thunder over the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Badge of Courage] Reference

Inside, however, the atmosphere was churchlike, assisted by an enormous video image of a stained-glass window with red-gold clouds blowing past that was projected behind the stage.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Here and there dark tapestry and massive curtains seemed to decrease the effect, but only at first sight, for, in fact, they lent the whole interior a dignity which was almost churchlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonauts] Reference

So, as will be seen, the first access of churchlike ideas to my mind by no means sufficed to expel my inherited and bigoted misconception, though in the event they did it as I hope effectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference

Indeed, the whole audio experience improved, including the moments of silence during test calls: Voices sounded as though they weren't coming out of a hollow, churchlike expanse of interior space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reseller News] Reference

Elsewhere, the churchlike Philip Glass selection and choice cuts from Leonard Cohen and Billie Holiday are welcome, but can't eclipse the overall sense that some intriguing opportunities were missed.    From Wordnik.com.  [EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines] Reference

While I was onstage doing my act to churchlike silence, a guy said to his date, loud enough that we all heard it, “I don’t understand any of this.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born Standing Up] Reference

I am not churchlike or atheist, meet spiritual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference