pipe down
Example Sentences
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Another microbiologist and senior doctor, Christine Peters, said she was advised by a senior colleague to "pipe down" or she would find things "hard" professionally.
From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026
Like Indy, kids get dragged around to places they don’t want to go to for reasons that aren’t explained, and when they whine, they’re commanded to pipe down.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025
Politico's Rachel Bade caught a rare break in McCarthy's otherwise stony facade when he "visibly shushed his members to pipe down."
From Salon • Feb. 8, 2023
On Thursday night, Green motioned to the TD Garden crowd to pipe down, informing the Boston Celtics’ fans that their team’s third-quarter run would not be enough to stop the Warriors’ era.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2022
Then Wang Lung flung his pipe down upon the ground and he shouted, “Am I never to be in peace?”
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
