HUSH in a Sentence

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113 example sentences for HUSH, such as:

1. Well, push Randa off you, Betsy, and hush.
2. There was an odd hush that caught Scarlett's heart.
3. The government tried to hush down the damaging details.
4. They tried to hush up the matter they hijacked a lorry driver.
5. They relate the story in a hushed tone, watching carefully for a reaction.

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 Meanings and Examples of HUSH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hush
 v.  make silent or quiet; keep from public knowledge; suppress mention of
Classic Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1  The hush of midnight lay on the village, and all its waking life was gathered behind the church windows, from which strains of dance-music flowed with the broad bands of yellow light.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Still she said nothing, wishing that it was permissible to shake one's father and tell him to hush his mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  Well, push Randa off you, Betsy, and hush.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  A sudden hush fell on the crowd both at the mention of the sum and at the name.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  Afternoon and hush and the far-off sound of the wagons coming in from the spiraling red fields.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  Her mind went swiftly back to the still hot noon with the country hush deep about Tara and the dead man in blue sprawled in the hall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  "Beetrice, hush," said Grandma.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
8  There was an odd hush that caught Scarlett's heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
9  He had no wish to make her talk; her quick-breathing silence seemed a part of the general hush and harmony of things.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
10  Lily sat quiet, leaning to the fire: the clatter of cups behind her soothed her as familiar noises hush a child whom silence has kept wakeful.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
11  In the street the noise of wheels had ceased, and the rumble of the "elevated" came only at long intervals through the deep unnatural hush.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
12  He would whip her to make her scream, and whip her to make her hush; and not until overcome by fatigue, would he cease to swing the blood-clotted cowskin.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  The hush was solemn and churchlike, save for a distant battery that, evidently unable to remain quiet, sent a faint rolling thunder over the ground.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
14  '"Oh, hush, with your comin' in behint 'em.'
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
15  After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful ghostly, unquiet possession, for a bad man to have.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
Example Sentence:
1  The government tried to hush down the damaging details.
2  The congregation being fully assembled, now, the bell rang once more, to warn laggards and stragglers, and then a solemn hush fell upon the church which was only broken by the tittering and whispering of the choir in the gallery.
3  The scandal has been discussed by the politburo, although the authorities have tried to hush it up.
4  They tried to hush up the matter they hijacked a lorry driver.
5  Sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening amongthe silent trees.
6  They relate the story in a hushed tone, watching carefully for a reaction.
7  You could not now traverse the gallery, once so hushed, nor enter the front chambers, once so tenantless, without encountering a smart lady's-maid or a dandy valet.