How to use hush in a sentence

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• The cove has hushed the battner; i.e. has killed the ox.From the entry battner
• So awe-inspiring was the sight that we spoke only in hushed whispers.From the entry hushed
• Some people say he knew too much and they killed him to hush him up.From the entry hush up
• The scandal was even greater when it was announced that hush money had been paid to keep the faulty products unannounced.From the entry hush money
• Hush up now; you have talked too much.From the entry hush up
• From the shadows emanated a hushed sibilation.From the entry sibilation
• She's a Northern girl, so she had to ask what hush puppies and mudbugs are. We were happy to serve her the answer on a platter!From the entry northern
• This unobtrusive device helps millions of Americans sleep and concentrate by hushing the world around them.2019 June 23, Mack Hagood, “How a Bad Night’s Sleep Birthed the Sound Conditioner”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic…. From the entry unobtrusive
• She slid a glance with a trace of longing at my one remaining hush puppy.2016, Anna Castle, Flash Memory (Lost Hat, Texas; 2), →ISBN. From the entry cornmealy
• For munchies try deep-fried jalapeño coins, jumbo Buffalo wings, and hush puppies with a sweet edge.2015, Fodor's The Carolinas & Georgia. From the entry coin
• For some, the vuvuzelas herald the country’s piercing emergence from the forced racial hush of apartheid.2010 August 6, Jeré Longman, “A Bleating Soundtrack for Soccer”, in The New York Times. From the entry vuvuzela
• "Oh, great holy goose grease!" the reported gasped in a hushed whisper.2010, Joel Townsley Rogers, Killing Time and Other Stories, page 256. From the entry horsefeather
• After four days, the man claimed to be hearing hushed, unintelligible voices in his head.2009 November 23, “Gateway of the Mind”, in Creepypasta, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2009. From the entry onset
• Ricart (ill. p. 13) two years earlier, Miró has captured a soft, hushed atmosphere here.2006, Janis Mink, Joan Miró, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry loud
• Someone laughed and was immediately hushed by their own sense of shame.2005 February 1, Nevada Barr, High Country, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry Weekend at Bernie's
• A valuable trick because it can always be claimed that the announcement was ‘hushed up’.2002, Russell Miller, Behind the Lines…. From the entry stop press
• The rest of the room was hushed and Maisie's voice went on, qualmless and strong.1981, Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent. From the entry qualmless
• There was a flutter of applause from the audience but, appreciatively, it quickly hushed itself.1916, Katherine Melvina Huntsinger Blackford, Arthur Newcomb, Analyzing Character, the New Science of Judging Men: Misfits in Business…. From the entry applause
• In the tiny kitchen a dozen men and a boy tried to hush their breathing, and sweltered.1904, Winston Churchill, The Crossing, page 1. From the entry cooking
• That scoundrel, Pinocchio, turned around and said most impolitely: “Oh, hush! ugly Crab.1901, Carlo Collodi, translated by Walter Samuel Cramp, The Adventures of Pinocchio. From the entry impolitely
• A deathly hush descended on the crowd.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry sick to one's stomach
• I'm enjoying my conversation so hush.” David and I would stay on the phone all night and talk.2014, Zaneeya S., Overcoming My Past, page 170. From the entry cupcake
• One of the most dynamic features of Aria is a sweeping, all-embracing waterwall that creates a waterfall hush.2012, Time Out Las Vegas, →ISBN, page 105. From the entry waterwall
• Even though they were fitted with hush kits, the overnight freighters were the subject of repeated noise complaints.2007 February, News.com.au. From the entry hush kit
• There was a hush from the crowd.1997, Olajire Olanlokun, chapter 3, in Karen Morrison, editor, The Missing Calabash, Oxford; Gaborone, Botswana: Heinemann Educational…. From the entry calabash
• 'So, what's all the hush and rurry?' he spoonered.1990, Garry Kilworth, Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks: Stories from the Otherworld, page 66. From the entry spooner
• In empty hush, in airless gloom, Mr.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry abide
• A hush had fallen over the élite in the ballroom, as a broad path was cleared for the throne.1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part III: “The Mayors”, chapter 6, page 101, ¶ 5. From the entry élite
• A misbirth with a trailing navelcord, hushed in ruddy wool.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 3: Proteus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 38. From the entry misbirth
• Is paying hush money a crime?2023 April 4, Michael Rothfeld, “Private or Political? Charges Over Hush Money Hinge on Payment’s Purpose”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry hush money
• But they would hush momentarily for the farce, specially if billed with the grand rider: 'licensed by the Lord Chamberlain expressly for this theatre'.2015, Ed Glinert, East End Chronicles, Penguin UK, →ISBN. From the entry rider
• But I couldn't help myself Something struck me as awfully funny that day—the hushed reverence, my starched white dress, I cannot say for sure.2010, Sarah Ferguson, What I Know Now: Simple Lessons Learned the Hard Way. From the entry church giggles
• Leave them alone – you'll only make the problems worse and create a Streisand Effect if you try to hush them up.2009, Kyle Lacy, Twitter Marketing For Dummies, For Dummies, →ISBN, page 215. From the entry Streisand effect
• When we used it in our “hush puppy” against a sentry, the target was almost always hit only once, in the head.2009, Thomas H. Keith, SEAL Warrior. From the entry hush puppy
• The country club where we coffee’d was hushed, even desolate on a rainy morning—the dark woods you would expect, the sweet selection of teas.2008, Rebecca Schoenkopf, Commie Girl in the OC, London; New York: Verso, →ISBN, pages 11–12. From the entry coffee
• Clinton began to pontificate, she told him that he did not exactly know what he was talking about and to hush up.2007 May 13, Patrick Healy, “In New Role, Senator Clinton’s Strategist in Chief”, in New York Times. From the entry pontificate
• There were hushed moments of complete beauty when the melody moved out and hung above the chanterelle like a hummingbird poised over a flower.2003, Paul Bowles, edited by Timothy Mangan and Irene Herrmann, Paul Bowles on Music, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 123. From the entry chanterelle
• A tense hush — similar to those intervals of electrical stillness that separate the resoundings of a thunderstorm — fell upon the room.2000, Harold Schechter, Nevermore, page 13. From the entry resounding
• Dodger told of his capture and the room of mirrors, his voice becoming hushed as he described the persona construct that echoed his own.1990, Robert N. Charrette, Shadowrun: Never Deal with a Dragon, New York: Penguin Books, page 375. From the entry ghost in the machine

Meaning of hush

1. verb To become quiet.
2. verb To make quiet.
3. verb To appease; to allay; to soothe.

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Questions about hush in a sentence

How do you use hush in a sentence?

Hush is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The cove has hushed the battner; i.e. has killed the ox.”

What is a short sentence with hush?

“Is paying hush money a crime?”

What does hush mean?

Hush means to become quiet.