hush
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The couple — who live in a quiet Rome neighborhood — kept hush about the wedding plan details, sharing with Vogue earlier this month only that a date was set for September.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
And yet, at 80 mph, wind noise is reduced to a lulling hush.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 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
The big band music stopped, and for a few seconds a hush fell over the guests.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
The hush puppies were lumpish, with a sweet, greasy smell.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
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 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
Lourdes hushes him with a wave of her newly slender hand.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
These largely dull, pedestrian Rangers men playing in front of a mostly hushed and increasingly tired stadium with 15,000 empty seats.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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
“How can you even look at that?” she asked, her voice hushed.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
Marleny took scores of pictures and videos of him on her cellphone, hushing Andrés whenever he reminded her to conserve battery power for emergencies.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 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
He hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning of a 5-0 win and then put his finger to his lips in a hushing gesture as he rounded the bases.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 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
Like there was a constant “Shhhhhh” hushing us all the time, in every room.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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