pipe down
Example Sentences
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It was also attended by consultant microbiologist Dr Christine Peters, a whistleblower who says she had been flagging concerns about the hospital buildings since 2014 but was advised to "pipe down".
From BBC • Feb. 5, 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
So when he heard that Rizzo had told his teammates to pipe down, Kintzler worried a misconception had ended his Nationals tenure.
From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2018
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.
