hush
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The music rose and fell, rose and fell as the players became one, followed by an orchestrated hush that served as a silent accent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
There was a hush as she delivered one of the most impressive performances of her short, but glittering, career so far.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Groups chatted under the hot sun, until the distant sound of a whistle caused a hush to spread.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The big band music stopped, and for a few seconds a hush fell over the guests.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
A hush fell over everyone as we went through our notes, the textbook, and “A Course Review,” trying to find links to what we were taught this year.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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
His mother, who initially hushes political discussions, emerges as a leader when she addresses a town assembly to point out that “we are Americans just like you.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2021
KAWAGOE, Japan — Now these hushed Olympics had found their way to the most melancholy of the hushes.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2021
She turns around and hushes us all and stamps her foot until we’re quiet again.
From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender
Nasa is flying the X-59 in conjunction with community surveys to assess what people think when a supersonic boom is bent by the planes stretched nose and hushed up.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
And nine out of ten times, she added in a hushed voice, “well, you know.”
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
The walls carry bottles, cans, jars, and echo hushed conversation.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
Each flick of my wrist is met with a hushed whisper against the paper.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
“What I hope is we don’t go to what I would call diversity hushing, where people don’t want to talk about what they’re doing,” Tharp said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2024
“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
I didn’t have a chance to test their flight chops, but they did a commendable job hushing city noise while I was working outside a coffee shop.
From The Verge ● Jun. 29, 2022
I can hear the audience hushing one another, not wanting to miss anything.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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