How To Use Hush In A Sentence

The announcement hushed the crowd but soon the hubbub returned and the misfortune was forgotten.
He did not flinch as the verdict was read to a hushed court - and his hopes of divine intervention were vanquished.
Weez she prefer chorizo to liver I wonderin how this one feel Blood T said but then shushed. RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
Eminent theatre personalities Zohra Segal and Ebrahim Alkazi and noted 'mridangam' Carnatic artist Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman are the other three chosen for Padma Vibhushan award by the government which, in all, named 130 people, including 13 in the category of foreigners, NRIs and PIOs. 43 are Padma Bhushan and 83 are Padma Shri. The Times of India
On the surface, it seems the radio babblers have been unceremoniously shushed.

Then a hush fell upon the fisherfolk, and only was heard the moan of the off-shore wind and the cries of the gulls flying low in the air. Nam-Bok, the Unveracious
A TEN-year-old schoolgirl yesterday told a hushed court how she had seen the man accused of murdering and dismembering another man beat her mother.
From beyond the doors, the hubbub still continued; but it trailed off, damped by the hush of those in front to a kind of shamefaced muttering. Funeral Games
The spacey grooves of the title track and the hushed melodies of the second single are pleasant enough, but simply don't resonate as strongly.
A sense of unease and foreboding quickly descended on the crowded chamber, followed by a hush minutes later when confirmation came through of what had happened.
All I could hear in the hush was the birds tweeting until, suddenly ahead of me, a lithe lad in Lycra darted over a crossroads like a rabbit scuttling for cover.
Now shush and plug in the hair dryer - I've got some hair to toss!
The priest hushes him with a frown: ‘Quiet, this is a church.’
Their conjugal affection still is ty'd,And still the mournful race is multiply'd:They bill, they tread; Alcyone compress'd,Sev'n days sits brooding on her floating nest:A wintry queen: her sire at length is kind,Calms ev'ry storm, and hushes ev'ry wind;Prepares his empire for his daughter's ease,And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas. Mystery bird: Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata
A hush descended on the crowd as the village chief began to speak.
In hushed tones, art aficionados, painters and the odd diplomat discussed the question of the day. Times, Sunday Times
Kippletringan was distant at first a gey bit; then the gey bit was more accurately described, as ablins three mile; then the three mile diminished into like a mile and a bittock; then extended themselves into four mile or there-awa; and, lastly, a female voice, having hushed a wailing infant which the spokeswoman carried in her arms, assured Guy Mannering, It was a weary lang gate yet to Kippletringan, and unco heavy road for foot passengers. Chapter I
They diagnosed cystitis and then they diagnosed nephrolithiasis & then they diagnosed Malta fever with ovarian complications & then they went all hush-hush while they diagnosed a tuberculous infection so that I couldn't possibly guess what they were testing for. Another piece of the puzzle
(`More likely VD ," Essie's brother had muttered and had been soundly shushed. FAIRYLAND
As my grandfather came out to the deep fryer with a bowl of hushpuppy batter and started spooning it into the same grease where we had already fried the crappie and fries my cousin's wife looked on with big eyes and said, "Good God! They're even frying the bread! Why Southern Flour Makes the Best Biscuits
Some places do coconut shrimp that's more like a shrimp hidden inside a coconut hushpuppy, but these were delicate and perfectly cooked. All Stories
My thought now is that it was all a very long time ago, in a much more rigid social climate than today, and there is not much sense in trying to hush it up any more.
I put the photos away and I conduct a very hush-hush surveillance.
The people around the village began to take notice, hushing children and pushing them back into their small houses that were made out of patched mud and straw.
Someone in the hushed bar suddenly laughed raucously at how stupid everyone had become.
They tried to hush up the matter they hijacked a lorry driver.
If we get a really good title out, then expect me to reward the contributor (s) with a very special gift. * hush hush* Welcome to the Underground.
And they always like a respectful hush when they are considering weighty matters. The Sun
No wonder they still speak of him in hushed tones. Times, Sunday Times
She's probably trying to get her dear dad to hush up.
I`m going to zhush it up with a secret ingredient
The telecon was so hush hush that not a word was actually spoken while it was in progress, for fear of, what else, leaks.
Silence descended on a village school when pupils held a sponsored hush for charity.
Hush, my dear boy!" she said, in her soothing way, as if she were stroking me down the back like she stroked her tabby Tom -- one of the mousiest and most petted of cats. She and I, Volume 1
Thelma Lou runs to him, holds him, shushes in his ear.
Soon enough, the soft sound of footsteps gave way to hushed voices.
The Ministry desperately tried to hush up the whole affair.
They relate the story in a hushed tone, watching carefully for a reaction.
People being shushed often give the shusher a dirty look, but as long as they shut up, you win! Ask Amy
Finally the fugu is set down in front of us to hushed anticipation.
The young and old were seated on and around the graves, talking in hushed tones while guitars strummed ballads welcoming those who have gone to walk among them for this one night. D�a de Muertos vs. Halloween?
The noise of life had suddenly been hushed, and each heart had heard for a moment the noiselessness of death. The Trespasser
This 50 year old company does a great job staying fashion forward and fresh with their choice of brand buying with brands such as Diesel, BCBG Girls, Lacoste, Ugg, Franco Sarto, and Hush Puppies. The Shopping Diet
Needless to say, the results are wildly uneven, vacillating from a hushed lament to a blistering assault within seconds.
KAREN STOP IT I am still emotionally recuperation from the LAST non-YA novel you gushed about (The Vintner's Luck hush it took me a while to find and then I had to wait in agony for it to arrive by post) Adult Fic, I Read That Too
As he strummed the song, with its hushed chorus that dwindles into a whisper by the end, the crowd knew it was one of those special cliched moments.
Darling, for God's sake ! Stop ! Hush! Don't yell.
_And for the rest, since good wine needs no hush, and an inferior beverage is not likely to be bettered by arboreal adornment, the reteller of these tales prefers to piece out his exordium (however lamely) with_ "THE PRINTER'S PREFACE. Chivalry
They use it to pay hush money for a minister's sin. In God's Country: travels in the Bible belt, USA.
The top-secret project was so hush-hush they were barred from even taking photographs.
Yes, his name is uttered amongst the musical cognoscenti in hushed tones.
There was a spasmic hush as he swept out of the room. Times, Sunday Times
The hushed surprise of the adagio introduction gave way to the driving rhythmic thrust of the Allegro molto.
The display would likely be greeted by pandemonium, emphatic shushing, or shocked silence.
There was a hush of silence as the maddening enchantments ceased, faces all around waiting for the next sign of what should happen, what confirmation to the miracle would be shown to them.
The closed interior world of Mitch's mind resembles too closely the hushed privacy of his new Pontiac; beyond it he feels anxiety and fear.
Main is also working on a hush-hush project involving a Scottish-based online games business and a couple of high-profile sports journalists.
But this sort of imprecise talk would have seen Ken and his Hush Puppies laughed out of Nottingham assizes. Hugh Muir's Diary
The Ministry desperately tried to hush up the whole affair.
And they always like a respectful hush when they are considering weighty matters. The Sun
The government hushed the affair up to avoid a public outcry.
There was little or no traffic and there was a deathly hush. Times, Sunday Times
Getty Images Such a hush-hush approach might make sense were this a military campaign as the word cyberattack connotes. Cybercrime Comes to the IMF
The lady sitting next to me is hushing her crying baby by singing to her in what sounds like Russian.
Hush," the woman said, putting her fingers on Olly's lips and glancing sidewise, to see who might have heard. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Her voice thinned down to a whisper as people turned to shush her.
The anemic palate that colours the film - grays, browns, and other hushed earth tones - provide the foreboding backdrop.
Just before 9am the drilling stopped and hush descended. Times, Sunday Times
Aside from the TV, a hush had descended upon the room.
I hushed him, pressing my finger to his lips, and shook my head.
Walking up the ramp, Ian was aware of the whispering sound of hundreds of hushed voices, but was unable to distinguish any individual words.
She kept asking what was wrong, but her mother merely told her to hush up, and run faster.
‘Calm, calm,’ she chirred softly, a finger touching my jaw and hushing my stumbling chatter.
The hushed, dirge-like song closes the album as it opens, with beautifully reflected sorrow.
A heavily moustached man, upon noticing us, shushes his compadres: ‘Shut up, there are people here!’
I could feel several people wanting to shush her, and holding back with difficulty. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
There was a deathly hush for most of the night as their team gave the fans little to get excited about. The Sun
The lights go down, the audience hushes, and very quickly the few details that I had previously known of the film were all affirmed.
Mika shushed him and did the quiet finger gesture.
There is a nervous hush in the dingy dealing rooms of Shanghai's retail stockbrokers as share prices on the display boards turn red. Times, Sunday Times
I was pointing frantically towards the meadow and trying to catch my partner's attention by squawking in a hushed tone, so as not to disturb this first major article of wildlife I'd spotted so far on our trip.
Yallac followed suit, lying on her back and gazing up at the endless expanse of stars, listening to the shushing of the water on the cliffs.
We didn't know where we were going to, it was very hush-hush.
The word spilled out of her in a hushed stream of syllables, that awful combination of consonants and vowels that spelled shame and death for any woman in what was politely called the ‘entertainment’ business.
Every time she spoke, her voice sounded so loud against the deathly hush.
There was a hushed twitter among the other Dukes, then silence.
We spoke to each other in hushed tones. Times, Sunday Times
The man could modulate his voice into a great variety of tones, booming, hushed, lyrical, penitent, frightened.
She hushes him, saying he is too sick to talk, and begins to cry.
For a long time, life went on as before, and the conversation promised in hushed voices on the airplane never took place.
Cooper nodded a greeting to those in the room, knuckled his Harry Potter glasses up on his nose and walked across the lab to the examination table on silent, brown Hush Puppies shoes. The Burning Wire
The attack on Mrs Keegan was recorded on tape after she managed to press a panic button and it was played to a hushed courtroom.
His flowing black cape, which appeared to have a perverse relationship with his arms, obscured his clothing, save for his ruffled shirt and his hushpuppy loafers. An East Wind Coming
The big name acts are pretty hush-hush at the moment, but the line-up is guaranteed to read like the who's who of Aussie music.
Talks loudly enough during a session to be a distraction, attracting the attention of a volunteer “shusher.” Firedoglake » Time Magazine Launches Bukkake Festival
In the end he was forced to resign but it was all very hush-hush.
Audience participation was animated to the point that the quizmaster had to hush the audience during the tie to pre-empt prompts.
A hush fell over the room as, silver salvers held high, they piped in the haggis.
O.J. outrage, tonight an unbelievable new twist, shocking allegations from Nicole Brown ` s sister that the families were offered what she calls hush money from the people who put together Simpson ` s offensive confession TV special and book. CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2006
His voice is a reedy hush, like a jet of water issuing from a punctured pipe.
They sat by the ficus tree as the bourgeoisie — haute, middle, and low — of Matar ambulated past in the Muzak hush of the mall. Florence of Arabia (Part II)
It is the Olympic finals and the natatorium has fallen silent as everyone leans forward in hushed anticipation.
One of the men stepped forward, holding up one hand, shushing his buddies.
I'm watching by myself this week because my friend Travis thinks I would "shush" him. Jane McGivney: Top Chef: Deja View
Apparently there's a very hush-hush project under way up north. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
Following an internal investigation, several soldiers received what amounted to a reprimand and the matter was hushed up.
But then, also, it was with a certain reverent curiousness that she approached the cabin, while the Hush on her cheek showed a yet riper mellowness. THE GREAT INTERROGATION
There was some financial scandal involving one of the ministers but it was all hushed up.
Ai Husheng also visited Mandalay and the Defense Services Technological Academy in Phin Oo Lwin, the state-run newspaper The New Light of Myanmar reported on Friday.
He spoke in hushed tones, and his eyes flooded with worry.
Plush but tidy brown hush puppies softened the girl's tread, and she walked with a slight shuffle, back hunched a bit, as if she were trying to hide from the world.
And they always like a respectful hush when they are considering weighty matters. The Sun
Suddenly the screams and shouts stopped and there was a terrible hush. The Sun
Why hasn't evolution programmed human babies to seek parental favor with pleasant sounds and gestures - a nudge, for example, or a hushed whimper?
Some of the world's greatest living conductors still speak my name with hushed reverence.
There was no speaking in hushed tones at this compact dining room full of chatty, laughing customers.
hushed-up stories sometimes leak out
The hallways are hushed as kids move wordlessly between classes, lined up single-file on the right side of each hallway, though they do bop and sashay in muted, youthful excitement.
Rolling her eyes impatiently, ‘Oh, shush, will you!;
But it's different, there's a strange hush in the air and the endless rumbling of 50,000 cannon shells.
A hush settled over the crowd and she spoke into rapt silence, no longer being viewed as the one on trial.
Cold, foamy water hushed over the rocks, and the gills of the fishes that swam in it caressed the rocks.
Back then, while everyone knew Leo had been blackballed, it was hushed up.
Its old brick buildings, clustered beneath bare trees, had the hush of a convent, a quietude to dispel the pain within. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
In 1996, RSF published a report entitled Libya: "We can criticize Allah but not Gaddafi" in which it referred to a "relaxation" of restrictions on the media, but noted that journalists critical of the regime spoke to its representatives in hushed tones for fear of reprisals. Magda Abu-Fadil: Libyan Media March to Beat of a Different Drummer
There was little or no traffic and there was a deathly hush. Times, Sunday Times
The Viswarupa Darshan of Lord Krishna is marvellously brought out in the open-handed use of hushed but powerful tones of red, yellow, black and white.
I am not a demagogue," he said to the hushed rows of togate senators inside the Curia Hostilia. The Grass Crown
That night, when it was quiet, and all that could be heard was the slight hush of a breeze ruffling the trees' leaves.
Previous is quick to act, telling us in hushed tones that under no circumstances must we leave the vehicle - before getting out himself. Times, Sunday Times
In 1982, he released Nebraska, a masterpiece of hush-toned dirges about murderers and chicken-man killers and accidentally invented lo-fi.
You may not hush people or impinge their enjoyment in any manner.
I slowly pulled away, then start to apologize but she placed her finger on my lips to hush me.
Any organization that can pass out hundreds of millions in hush-money can damn-well afford to pay taxes. Think Progress » Catholic League: Church Abuse Scandal Is A Crisis Of ‘Homosexuality,’ Not ‘Pedophilia’
We hiked, went sledding, watched skiers shush down the sides of white on blue-black mountains. FROM THE TEETH OF ANGELS
In one corner, two people were talking in hushed voices.
I wondered how late she'd be, and if, when she arrived, we'd converse in hushed, reverent tones. FOLLOW THE SHARKS
If word got out about what's to be found at Bay Area libraries, there'd be a whole lot more shushing going on.
A hushed courtroom awaited the verdict.
He stepped up to the desk and spoke in a hushed whisper to my history teacher, Mrs Burton.
She seemed delighted to see these ladies, who belong to the Junta, and led us into a large hall where a score of nurses and babies were performing a symphony of singing, hushing, crying, lullabying, and other nursery music. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
When her cuckolded husband blackmailed him, Hamilton paid hush money to keep his wife from learning of the dalliance. A Short History of Political Suicide
The studio hushed it up to preserve her virginal image.
None in response to Mr. Qian, while the other is loud warble: "rice Shushi drinking song of the peptide and the pillow, music also Among carry on.
Friday's encounters had been played out in front of banks of empty seats and a deathly hush.
(Could you imagine how strange it would be if the umpire signaled to the crowd before C.C. Sabathia pitched that they had to "shush" while the big left hander delivered the ball?) Roger I. Abrams: The Sound and the Fury
We are not taking about breaded, fried, or fast-food fish that comes served as a “-wich,” has an “O” after the filet, or arrives in a basket with a side of curly fries and hush puppies. The Flex Diet
He hushed her, placing a finger to her lips, and it effectively quieted her.
And then again I saw it lying very quietly in the clutch of a bitter winter -- an awful hush upon it, and the white cerement of the snow flung across its face. The River and I
There is a drunk dyke heckler whom everyone shushes.
As an altarboy, I remember the quaint, hush-hush ceremony of "churching" of new mothers Planet Atheism
My uncle and mother were arguing, their voices held in hushed whispers.
She was allegedly paid 300,000 hush money. The Sun
My three year-old cousin on the other hand, does not appreciate the humour or my laughing, so she promptly shushes me and returns to her trace-like state of staring at the TV.
During a prolonged break in the rains the frogs and toads are hushed, except in jhils and low-lying paddy fields.
There is a nervous hush in the dingy dealing rooms of Shanghai's retail stockbrokers as share prices on the display boards turn red. Times, Sunday Times
They can hush a student who is toying with the idea of goofing off with a sideways glance out of the corner of their eye. Archive 2006-06-01
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A conspiratorial hush proceeds to cosh the masses, precipitating a muffled ripple of applause as the Mayor and his entourage take to the stand.
Byelorussian people remember vividly the dark days of 1991-94 under the catastrophic misrule of Shushkevich and the contrast it with the goodness of Lukashenko's government. Belarus: That's enough democracy | Editorial
As the result was announced, a radio was turned on and a hush descended. Times, Sunday Times
At one point, Harry giggles behind the camera and Diana says, ‘Harry shush!’
As I reached the front of the crowd a haunting hush fell over them.
Both Breschel and Feillu returned earlier this week from the world road championships in Geelong, Australia, where Breschel finished second behind Thor Hushovd of Norway. Ravard claims Paris-Bourges win
Two blades sliced past his head from behind as Shushuka again landed stealthily, but not so quietly this time.
I scrambled to shush her, but this is my sister's regular speaking voice. She sat down and looked around.
On my forehead, the concrete is cold and a benevolent nurse hushes, presses the compress to my skin. Day 7: Pigeon Savant
Dressed with little more than the occasional industrial splurt, Maynard sings almost exclusively in hushed tones and the guitars are all but muted throughout.
A deathly hush followed the explosion.
Khushi's eyes followed the boy and watched him approach an elderly couple.
A strange quiet followed the storm, in which people gathered and talked in hushed voices, and men with red-stained bandages drank their ale silently in the taverns along the river bank. The Conquering Sword Of Conan
What's dimin --" the little girl started to say, but her mother shushed her. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
It is of course a pleasant paradox that these texts, now diligently kept from unscholarly eyes in the reverent hush of university libraries, were once the subject of scribblings, doodles, litanies of the mundane.
I could feel several people wanting to shush her, and holding back with difficulty. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
The people in the audience, who usually spend halftime ignoring us or pelting us with peanuts, were hushed as they tried to figure out what we were writing.
Mum and Dad had lots of hushed conversations. Times, Sunday Times
They filed in with hushed voices and stifled winces as they bumped into the seats laid out for them.
So, in effect, you can try on a pair of Hush Puppies and never leave home. The Orange Revolution
No breathless hush at the Oval this time round. Times, Sunday Times
At 4pm a hush descends and a military band plays the national anthem. Times, Sunday Times
Outside the bright sterility of the commissary was a corridor suggestive of hushed voices and stiff formality. A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air
For hours, they pore over the books, consult each other in hushed Gujarati, then write things on the forms, filling them up and starting on new ones.
This 50 year old company does a great job staying fashion forward and fresh with their choice of brand buying with brands such as Diesel, BCBG Girls, Lacoste, Ugg, Franco Sarto, and Hush Puppies. The Shopping Diet
Khushi is the daughter of a family friend, who becomes part of this household after being orphaned.
So, if, whilst padding round in your hushpuppies on a tycoon's superyacht off the coast of, say, Montenegro, and a Russian Oligarch slips you a large brown envelope with US$ 500,000 to change the tariffs on, say, gobstopper imports, that is nobody's business but your own. Mendacious Mandy: Take Everything With A Pinch Of Salt
It gives them a real lift and we had to keep it a bit hush-hush to stop the entire hospital coming down here.
There was a horrible hush in the crowd. Times, Sunday Times
The almighty trade dollar shouldn't hush up public debate on this - to treat the welfare of animals so carelessly is a discredit to us all.
The hallway was buzzing with murmurs and hushed voices.
At a far corner of the clubroom two astute gentlemen were, like some of the other members, sipping their tot of whiskey and engaged in hushed conversation.
Mothers sat holding their "piccaninnies" in their sable embrace, murmuring expressions of endearment, or endeavouring to hush them to rest. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
He just shushes me, looking very, very, very handsome with that brooding, serious stare on his face.
They returned two hours later, when the foreman addressed the hushed courtroom with their unanimous verdicts.
`Laser microscopy, he's involved in a government research project, it's all very hush-hush. FALLEN WOMEN
The posterity for commemorates this fortuitous encounter to construct five Hushan in this.
Kippletringan was distant at first a gey bit; then the gey bit was more accurately described, as ablins three mile; then the three mile diminished into like a mile and a bittock; then extended themselves into four mile or there-awa; and, lastly, a female voice, having hushed a wailing infant which the spokeswoman carried in her arms, assured Guy Mannering, It was a weary lang gate yet to Kippletringan, and unco heavy road for foot passengers. Chapter I
There had also been trouble at a large local chromite mine, in which workers had not been paid for eleven months, and one of their number was killed during a protest—an event that was hushed up. Let the Swords Encircle Me
Another hymn of the same class is, "[10] Now hush your cries, and shed no tear," the "Jam moesta quiesce querela" of Lyra Germanica: The Christian Year
It hushes the infant to its slumbers in the cradle with a song whose theme is the babe of Bethlehem; it allures the child to virtue by the example of Josiah, Timothy, and Samuel; it warns the wayward youth, and reproves the erring man, and calls the hoary sinner to repentance. Characteristics of the Bible. A Sermon Preached before the Bible Convention of South Carolina, in the Washington Street Methodist Church, Columbia, September 15, 1862
No amount of watching pretty boys pash each other, as fun as that can be to watch from time to time, can make me ignore, for instance, a scene in which the drama teacher puts a magic hush spell over a group of outraged parents. Review: Were the World Mine

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