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hush up

VERB
  1. cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
    She tried to gloss over her mistakes
    Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin
  2. cause to be quiet or not talk
    Please silence the children in the church!

How To Use hush up In A Sentence

  • He's been owed a trophy for years, and if he gets one, maybe he can finally hush up about how comic actors are perennially overlooked.
  • I ask if tabloid intrusion into the personal lives of the famous has turned the judiciary against the press, which could make it easier for Establishment figures to hush up real scandals such as corruption.
  • They tried to hush up the matter they hijacked a lorry driver.
  • The ushers asked those attending the opera to hush up and not to sing along.
  • He looked to me and placed a finger over his lips, telling me to hush up and act like he wasn't there.
  • Yea yea… now hush up, I get to blow up a few things and we're still alive, this must be my day.
  • The rest of us were told to hush up with our petty concerns about foreign entanglements, airport privatization, and what have you.
  • But while leading figures in other sports often speak out on matters that affect their livelihoods, footballers hush up or are airbrushed into meaningless platitudes.
  • Henri Lloyd enlisted Sydney super stylist Ken Thompson to zhush up the summer collection shown at the yacht club.
  • The teacher looked at what they were looking and laughing at and told them to hush up so he could start class.
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