Thesaurus / hushed
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At just 64 pages, “Winter Recipes” is a slender volume, and its poems, spoken in hushed and hesitant tones, are delicate and spare.
LOUISE GLUCK’S FIRST COLLECTION SINCE HER NOBEL GRACEFULLY CAPTURES OUR FRAGILITYTROY JOLLIMORENOVEMBER 4, 2021WASHINGTON POSTAs cars become quieter, the lull of a hushed cabin means that the ears aren’t listening to every bump in the road or shift in engine RPM.
THAT NEW CAR SMELL? IT’S GOT A GASSY EXPLANATION.ROB STUMPFSEPTEMBER 19, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEThe user has all these options because over the last quarter-century, online dating went from a stigmatized activity discussed in hushed, embarrassed tones to the most common way couples meet in the US.
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE ONLINE DATING INDUSTRYHANNA KOZLOWSKAFEBRUARY 14, 2021QUARTZI appreciate the hushed luxury of the libraries in private research universities, but the price of entry, to be a professor or a student, is high.
WHAT AMANDA GORMAN TEACHES US ABOUT OUR SHARED AMERICAVIET THANH NGUYENFEBRUARY 12, 2021TIMEA good director can make you feel the vibrating summer heat, the hushed tranquility of a winter night, and the deepest feelings of a person who is seemingly nothing like you.
REBECCA HALL'S PASSING IS A COMPLEX, MOVING STORY ABOUT RACIAL IDENTITY—AND A SUNDANCE STANDOUTSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKFEBRUARY 3, 2021TIMEO lady, mine,Hushed now is every path, and few and dimThe lamps that glimmer through the balconies.Thou sleepest!
THE POEMS OF GIACOMO LEOPARDIGIACOMO LEOPARDIA murmur ran through the court-room, quickly hushed by the insistent gavel.
MYSTERY RANCHARTHUR CHAPMANThe shadow of a dark cloud had fallen upon the woods, and the voices of the birds were strangely hushed.
LOVE'S PILGRIMAGEUPTON SINCLAIREvery noise was hushed, and one might have heard a bat fly in the somber corridors of the Louvre.
CHICOT THE JESTERALEXANDRE DUMAS, PEREHe reported the results before a learned scientific body, but his colleagues were so scandalized that the matter was hushed up.
LOVE'S PILGRIMAGEUPTON SINCLAIRWORDS RELATED TO HUSHED
- buttoned-up
- clammed up
- close
- close-mouthed
- could hear a pin drop
- dumb
- hushed
- hushful
- inaudible
- low
- low-pitched
- muffled
- mute
- muted
- noiseless
- not saying boo
- peaceful
- quiescent
- quieted
- reserved
- restrained
- reticent
- secretive
- silent
- soft
- soundless
- speechless
- still
- stilled
- subdued
- taciturn
- tasteful
- tight-lipped
- uncommunicative
- unexpressed
- unobtrusive
- unspeaking
- unuttered
- whist
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