hushed up
Example Sentences
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When Ellison took the witness stand in the late morning, following her former colleague Gary Wang, every single reporter in the media-overflow room hushed up.
From Slate • Oct. 10, 2023
In September 2013, he denied that he had hushed up the scandals.
From Reuters • Dec. 31, 2022
He told his mother at the time, who got a "grovelling apology" before it was "hushed up".
From BBC • Jul. 28, 2022
Military historian John Keegan, in his 1978 masterpiece “The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme,” explored the often decisive element of fear in warfare — a topic frequently hushed up.
From Washington Post • May 27, 2022
Besides, the business had been hushed up long before, by Arthur.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
