hushed
Example Sentences
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Japan's emperor is generally treated with hushed reverence, but one man stripped away all decorum -- quite literally -- during a New Year's event on Friday, local media reported.
From Barron's
It was only after assurances that their identities would be kept anonymous that some men agreed to be interviewed, speaking in hushed tones.
From BBC
When people think about the world’s foremost grandmasters, they might imagine two geniuses in a hushed room leaning over a chess board.
Lately, I’ve spent just as much time contemplating the movie’s silence — those hushed stretches in which this caravan of bohemians speeds across the Moroccan desert looking like the only free people left on Earth.
From Los Angeles Times
Mariano spends his days in grand, palatial spaces that are curiously still and inert, like hushed museum galleries.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
