hush

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

In a WhatsApp message cited in the lawsuit, Shell told Cipriani that the deal was “very hush, hush until we sign.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026

Amanda is enraptured with its aspirational luxury: “The house had that hush expensive houses do. Silence meant the house was plumb, solid, its organs working in happy harmony.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

Koffi faltered in her steps as a hush fell over the tent.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

“Very sad. Absolutely,” says Winkler, in a quiet voice that hushes his “Barry” cast mates.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2023

KAWAGOE, Japan — Now these hushed Olympics had found their way to the most melancholy of the hushes.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2021

The Lake Shore Limited hushes through the early-morning darkness, following the same route as that special train, back in 1948, whisking a raucous group of baseball men to Cleveland for celebrations and a parade.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2016

The first cadenza produced one of those you-could-hear-a-pin-drop hushes in the sold-out hall.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 29, 2016

I start bouncing in the booth and squealing until Emma hushes me so she can hear.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

A long line of peasants like Anya waited at the windowed building’s huge doors, nervously tugging at shirts or hats, holding long scrolls of paper, or talking in hushed voices to a person beside them.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

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

“People are just waiting for the dust to settle. That’s where green hushing is coming in,” Mr. Chong told DealBook.

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2023

For if Lydia is always performing, then she is also always conducting, ruthlessly directing, coordinating, manipulating and sometimes hushing the people in her life as if they were members of her own personal orchestra.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

They were capable of hushing all but the loudest noises on the NYC subway, but in my not-so-loud home environment, some distracting sounds still found their way to my ears.

From The Verge ● May 24, 2022

Sor Socorro rushed out for a second time that day, hushing and rounding us up.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez