hushed up
Example Sentences
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He added: "Unless the process is absolutely right, then there'll still be a lingering doubt that things have been hushed up or swept under a carpet."
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2025
When Ellison took the witness stand in the late morning, following her former colleague Gary Wang, every single reporter in the media-overflow room hushed up.
From Slate • Oct. 10, 2023
In September 2013, he denied that he had hushed up the scandals.
From Reuters • Dec. 31, 2022
Military historian John Keegan, in his 1978 masterpiece “The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme,” explored the often decisive element of fear in warfare — a topic frequently hushed up.
From Washington Post • May 27, 2022
“You kept this...transaction hushed up for a whole year?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
