hushed up
Example Sentences
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Relationships don’t falter because of hard things; they falter when the hard things are ignored and/or hushed up.
From Slate • Mar. 23, 2025
In September 2013, he denied that he had hushed up the scandals.
From Reuters • Dec. 31, 2022
He told his mother at the time, who got a "grovelling apology" before it was "hushed up".
From BBC • Jul. 28, 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
She hushed up when we got to the back porch.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
