hushed up
Example Sentences
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When Ellison took the witness stand in the late morning, following her former colleague Gary Wang, every single reporter in the media-overflow room hushed up.
From Slate • Oct. 10, 2023
In September 2013, he denied that he had hushed up the scandals.
From Reuters • Dec. 31, 2022
He told his mother at the time, who got a "grovelling apology" before it was "hushed up".
From BBC • Jul. 28, 2022
These isolated eruptions are hushed up, suppressed by the local news media and by police and fire crews that respond to the “incidents.”
From Seattle Times • May 11, 2022
But of course four or five thousand people had seen the transformation and the affair could not possibly be hushed up.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
