hush
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These scenes were the only time a hush fell over the entire auditorium, as if every member of the audience was waiting for the other shoe to drop.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026
The fans faintly begin chanting his name, then their voices disappear into a hush.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
Hellerstein has also tangled with Donald Trump, rejecting a request by the US president to have his New York hush money case moved to federal court.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026
Amanda is enraptured with its aspirational luxury: “The house had that hush expensive houses do. Silence meant the house was plumb, solid, its organs working in happy harmony.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
Even the birds were stunned into abnormal hush.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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
The first cadenza produced one of those you-could-hear-a-pin-drop hushes in the sold-out hall.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 29, 2016
But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
In 1997, the nation's hearts went out to the two young boys, then aged 15 and 12, as they accompanied Diana's coffin through hushed London streets at her funeral.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
That night, a million hushed “sorry!’s” could be heard throughout the auditorium as hordes of alternatively inclined women — because there were mostly women — flattened themselves to move through their row.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The walls carry bottles, cans, jars, and echo hushed conversation.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
You could only hear her offer a hushed “no” because the room had never been more silent.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
She spoke quietly, but it was the kind of voice that people hushed themselves to hear.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
The crowd could barely contain their elation, hushing briefly when Mitchell’s anchor vocals were unaccompanied, only to erupt again the second the rest of the choir rejoined her.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
For if Lydia is always performing, then she is also always conducting, ruthlessly directing, coordinating, manipulating and sometimes hushing the people in her life as if they were members of her own personal orchestra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
I didn’t have a chance to test their flight chops, but they did a commendable job hushing city noise while I was working outside a coffee shop.
From The Verge ● Jun. 29, 2022
They have also taken to hushing nearby adults, so they can better hear their shows.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2021
As Pecola put the laundry bag in the wagon, we could hear Mrs. Breedlove hushing and soothing the tears of the little pink-and-yellow girl.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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