hush
Example Sentences
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As director Andrew Max Levy pops in from backstage to stop filming and hush the audience and they come to a sudden stop.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
In a spotless, hushed factory near Hamburg in northern Germany, industrial robots stand ready to assemble the components of electrolysers.
From BBC
Late in the album, the typically hushed “I Love You” tries something new, closing out with dramatic and bizarrely distorted percussion.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.