pipe down
Example Sentences
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Another microbiologist and senior doctor, Christine Peters, said she was advised by a senior colleague to "pipe down" or she would find things "hard" professionally.
From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026
Politico's Rachel Bade caught a rare break in McCarthy's otherwise stony facade when he "visibly shushed his members to pipe down."
From Salon • Feb. 8, 2023
On Thursday night, Green motioned to the TD Garden crowd to pipe down, informing the Boston Celtics’ fans that their team’s third-quarter run would not be enough to stop the Warriors’ era.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2022
The ploy is quite clear: virtually nobody counts as quite deprived enough to have ambitions for a better world, so everybody should just pipe down.
From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2019
“They don’t pipe down soon, the whole neighborhood will turn out to watch.”
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
