hush up

Example Sentences

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Harry is suing Mail on Sunday publisher Associated Newspapers Ltd. over an article alleging he tried to hush up his separate legal challenge over the British government’s refusal to let him pay for police security.

From Washington Times • Mar. 17, 2023

Glasnost faced a dramatic test in April 1986, when a nuclear power station exploded in Chornobyl, Ukraine, and authorities tried at first to hush up the disaster.

From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2022

Rights activists say that local authorities often try to hush up cases like this one.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2021

“Why don’t I hush up, as my mom would say. And tell me a little about what you’re doing,” he said to the Rev. William J. Barber.

From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2020

Ordinarily if anybody was saying hush up around here, it was Aunt Loma, despite she was fourteen years younger than my mother.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns