hushed

Example Sentences

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She remembers feeling "something was not right" and describes the theatre room as hushed, with "no one was really talking" until "an alarm went off".

From BBC • May 11, 2026

At Flagship, a garage-turned-gallery in the Arts District, I caught “Monument Eternal,” a hushed installation by Le’Andra LeSeur, who had come to the city on the three-year Tulsa Artist Fellowship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Aolani “Lani” Alarcon approached the mic to hushed voices.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2026

"Right now I think we just need something positive," the 38-year-old Black woman and Virginia native told AFP moments later in a hushed voice.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

I woke to hushed voices in the dark.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff