hush

As Djokovic toiled, an eerie hush fell around Arthur Ashe Stadium which indicated the crowd's growing concern for the four-time champion.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

And yet, at 80 mph, wind noise is reduced to a lulling hush.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

In the hush of his office, John Francis Seymour is working what he calls “the levers of power” like a 53-year-old kid running an imaginary earthmover.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

The big band music stopped, and for a few seconds a hush fell over the guests.

From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026

Silence composes the nerves; and as an unbroken hush now reigned again through the whole house, I began to feel the return of slumber.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

After the opening run of songs, she hushes the audience and spends two minutes looping her voice.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

“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 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 hear María coughing a little and Hilda laughing while Angela hushes her.

From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya

Though the song starts out hushed, the metallic percussion hints at industrial music, and when the strings arrive they lean toward Eastern European-style modal melodies, lending a colorful and slightly kitschy swoon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

This time Laya’s hushed solo was slightly audible and equally astonishing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

And nine out of ten times, she added in a hushed voice, “well, you know.”

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

A doctor talks in a hushed voice to a man and woman outside room 2B.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

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

Instead of hushing that up or standing in judgment, why not analyze it, historically, with all the intellectual tools these Europeans didn’t have and voices they couldn’t hear?

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

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

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