Thesaurus / hush-hush

hush-hush

EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB

Here there was a scuffling sound in the basket, and the Roc rapped on the cover with her hard beak, and cried, "Hush!"

How still and calm the night was, the very stars were painted on the sky, the lights were low, there lay a hush upon the audience.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

He caught his breath, he paused, then stepped within on tiptoe, and the hush of four thousand years closed after him.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

He was taken up for dead; and Richelieu and the Cardinal conjured me to hush the affair.

Amid the hush that followed, the stranger picked himself slowly up, and sought to wipe the filth from his face and garments.

Its utterance filled the air like soft thunder, and a hush came over the whole room.

The day had been unusually warm, and after sunset a curious hush descended on the island.

But now a craning of necks and a sudden hush of the animated talk showed that some development was toward.

There was a hush and a stir, and the glorious liquid notes broke out again.

He evidently has no suspicion, or he would have come to us for hush-money long ago.

APRIL 19, 2021

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