hush
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It won’t hush the din, but there’s nothing like mutual loathing to foster a sense of community.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
"It was a hush email," and "an effort to damage control," says one worker - while another says it made her "furious".
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
The big band music stopped, and for a few seconds a hush fell over the guests.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
It’s easy to picture the fantasy kitchen: matching sets, gleaming gadgets, drawers that close with a soft, expensive hush.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2026
“The two of you, hush up,” Pa said.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
A few nervous hushes floated across the place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
After the opening run of songs, she hushes the audience and spends two minutes looping her voice.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
They’re practicing “the mirror,” an improv exercise in a theater classroom, and the room suddenly hushes.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2023
The mother hushes their older siblings, who are watching videos on an iPad in the next room.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2022
She hushes him, pulls him onto her lap.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
In Ankara, Turkish riders on horseback flanked Trump's limousine as it drove through the hushed streets to the presidential palace where an honour guard in red and blue uniforms greeted him.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
Spoken in a colloquial mix of English and Armenian, the recording became the introduction to “Canopies,” a song with the hushed, rocking cadence of a lullaby that Korkejian wrote from her grandmother’s perspective.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The walls carry bottles, cans, jars, and echo hushed conversation.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
You could only hear her offer a hushed “no” because the room had never been more silent.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
“Brother Habib,” said Gul Khan in a hushed voice.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
The crowd could barely contain their elation, hushing briefly when Mitchell’s anchor vocals were unaccompanied, only to erupt again the second the rest of the choir rejoined her.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
Blanchett emphasizes Lydia’s acute sensitivity to sound, whether she’s hushing someone’s nervous physical tic or picking up on eerie disturbances in her apartment late at night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
These earbuds do a better job than the AirPods Pro and even slightly outperform Bose’s QuietComfort Earbuds at hushing nearby noise.
From The Verge ● Jun. 8, 2021
The formula succeeded in gradually hushing criticism that the N.B.A. was taking grave risks, primarily for financial motivations, by rebooting a full-contact indoor team sport amid a pandemic.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2020
I kept hushing them, and they finally sobered up when I reminded them we were not libre yet.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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