hushed
Example Sentences
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To the uninitiated, cross-country skiing looks like a graceful, rhythmic activity set against a hushed winter landscape.
All that crackling pressure on one athlete, the hushed ooooooohhs from the rafters, all of it.
"Right now I think we just need something positive," the 38-year-old Black woman and Virginia native told AFP moments later in a hushed voice.
From Barron's
She spoke quietly, but it was the kind of voice that people hushed themselves to hear.
From Literature
There’s something so deeply satisfying about the hushed sharing of information.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
