shush

That’s where finding a quiet space to meditate or write in her journal helped shush McClernon’s self-doubt.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

US President Joe Biden told a climate heckler to "shush up" after they interrupted a speech he was giving in Arizona.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2023

But though we may be cheering, we’re also simultaneously trying to shush the cynical voice buried inside us.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2023

He has to repeatedly shush the crowd during his remarks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2023

Before Miss Haskell could shush the class and tell Skeezie he would do no such thing, Addie had her hand in the air and said, “I wrote it.”

From "The Misfits" by James Howe

Mike gathers himself, shushes the woman for waking him and then collects his belongings to begin a day of panhandling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

Go into hysterics if someone shushes them in a theater?

From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2023

The man could not hit a fairway, make a putt or do anything worthy of one of his patented crowd shushes.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 29, 2018

Vanessa, a New York-raised teacher in her early 40s with family back in Haiti, waits through a few protracted rounds of talk before the room shushes again.

From The Guardian ● May 18, 2018

He shushes me and puts a finger to his mouth,even though this is my backyard and my tent.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

Villa analyst Victor Manas urged Tindall to "show some respect" and "lose the finger" after the Newcastle number two repeatedly shushed a visibly irate Unai Emery at St James' Park.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

Why would she be abruptly shushed whenever she asked after its fate?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

"When Gus showed huge displays of emotion and overwhelm of pride for his father, he wasn't shushed or told to be smaller," she said.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024

Arriaga shushed them as she rifled through a stack of crumpled birth certificates and other identity documents in search of information the app required.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2024

Their mother shushed them with a finger to her lips, her eyes never leaving the preacher, who was talking about Moses and the Hebrew slaves.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper

“I always felt like I was in a library,” Emma says, with some guests shushing others or throwing a side-eye.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

“They’re doing more than just stamping books or shushing everybody,” Kearney said.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026

The only sound was the steady shushing of shoes and snowboots across the marble floor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025

Millions of people remember him as a 19-year-old shushing the crowd at London 2012 before he stormed to victory in the T44 100m.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2024

He put a finger over his lips, shushing her, as he pulled her inside the tree’s dark interior.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack