Examples of using "царила" in a sentence and their english translations:
There was a silence.
There was silence in the forest.
- Silence reigned in the room.
- The room was quiet.
There was dead silence.
Silence reigned in the room.
Silence reigned in the room.
But these guys, essentially, were working in a fair system
There was a feeling of constraint in the room; no one dared to tell the king how foolish his decision was.
In the shade of the wood, the thermometer shows only 24°C, but out in the field, where there's no cover, the heat is unbearable.