hush

The music rose and fell, rose and fell as the players became one, followed by an orchestrated hush that served as a silent accent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Groups chatted under the hot sun, until the distant sound of a whistle caused a hush to spread.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

"It was a hush email," and "an effort to damage control," says one worker - while another says it made her "furious".

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

The big band music stopped, and for a few seconds a hush fell over the guests.

From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026

The hush of the hills and the wide sky made it feel like we were the only people in the world.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

After the opening run of songs, she hushes the audience and spends two minutes looping her voice.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

“Very sad. Absolutely,” says Winkler, in a quiet voice that hushes his “Barry” cast mates.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2023

They’re practicing “the mirror,” an improv exercise in a theater classroom, and the room suddenly hushes.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2023

His mother, who initially hushes political discussions, emerges as a leader when she addresses a town assembly to point out that “we are Americans just like you.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2021

Mami hushes him with her usual “No flies fly into a closed mouth, Mundo.”

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

But less than five years later, as final seconds ticked away on a 41-27 loss to Oregon on Saturday, fans trudged toward the exits, and that very same stadium sat in hushed disbelief.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Nasa is flying the X-59 in conjunction with community surveys to assess what people think when a supersonic boom is bent by the planes stretched nose and hushed up.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

In Ankara, Turkish riders on horseback flanked Trump's limousine as it drove through the hushed streets to the presidential palace where an honour guard in red and blue uniforms greeted him.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

The walls carry bottles, cans, jars, and echo hushed conversation.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

Each flick of my wrist is met with a hushed whisper against the paper.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

“What I hope is we don’t go to what I would call diversity hushing, where people don’t want to talk about what they’re doing,” Tharp said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2024

Blanchett emphasizes Lydia’s acute sensitivity to sound, whether she’s hushing someone’s nervous physical tic or picking up on eerie disturbances in her apartment late at night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

They were capable of hushing all but the loudest noises on the NYC subway, but in my not-so-loud home environment, some distracting sounds still found their way to my ears.

From The Verge ● May 24, 2022

Instead of hushing that up or standing in judgment, why not analyze it, historically, with all the intellectual tools these Europeans didn’t have and voices they couldn’t hear?

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

But after a while, I’d get bored and wander to the back of the prayer hall and run around with the other kids while different ladies took turns hushing us.

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan