HUSH in a Sentence
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113 example sentences for HUSH, such as:
1. Well, push Randa off you, Betsy, and hush.
2. There was an odd hush that caught Scarlett's heart.
3. The government tried to hush down the damaging details.
4. They tried to hush up the matter they hijacked a lorry driver.
5. They relate the story in a hushed tone, watching carefully for a reaction.
2. There was an odd hush that caught Scarlett's heart.
3. The government tried to hush down the damaging details.
4. They tried to hush up the matter they hijacked a lorry driver.
5. They relate the story in a hushed tone, watching carefully for a reaction.
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Meanings and Examples of HUSH
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hush
v. become quiet or still; fall silent
v. run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals
Classic Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1 The hush of midnight lay on the village, and all its waking life was gathered behind the church windows, from which strains of dance-music flowed with the broad bands of yellow light.
2 Still she said nothing, wishing that it was permissible to shake one's father and tell him to hush his mouth.
3 Well, push Randa off you, Betsy, and hush.
4 A sudden hush fell on the crowd both at the mention of the sum and at the name.
5 Afternoon and hush and the far-off sound of the wagons coming in from the spiraling red fields.
6 Her mind went swiftly back to the still hot noon with the country hush deep about Tara and the dead man in blue sprawled in the hall.
7 "Beetrice, hush," said Grandma.
8 There was an odd hush that caught Scarlett's heart.
9 He had no wish to make her talk; her quick-breathing silence seemed a part of the general hush and harmony of things.
10 Lily sat quiet, leaning to the fire: the clatter of cups behind her soothed her as familiar noises hush a child whom silence has kept wakeful.
11 In the street the noise of wheels had ceased, and the rumble of the "elevated" came only at long intervals through the deep unnatural hush.
12 He would whip her to make her scream, and whip her to make her hush; and not until overcome by fatigue, would he cease to swing the blood-clotted cowskin.
13 The hush was solemn and churchlike, save for a distant battery that, evidently unable to remain quiet, sent a faint rolling thunder over the ground.
14 '"Oh, hush, with your comin' in behint 'em.'
15 After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful ghostly, unquiet possession, for a bad man to have.
Example Sentence:
1 The government tried to hush down the damaging details.
2 The congregation being fully assembled, now, the bell rang once more, to warn laggards and stragglers, and then a solemn hush fell upon the church which was only broken by the tittering and whispering of the choir in the gallery.
3 The scandal has been discussed by the politburo, although the authorities have tried to hush it up.
4 They tried to hush up the matter they hijacked a lorry driver.
5 Sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening amongthe silent trees.
6 They relate the story in a hushed tone, watching carefully for a reaction.
7 You could not now traverse the gallery, once so hushed, nor enter the front chambers, once so tenantless, without encountering a smart lady's-maid or a dandy valet.