Verb The woman in the seat behind me was trying to hush her baby. The judge hushed the spectators. The spectators hushed as the judge entered the courtroom. Noun the storm passed, and a hush fell over the sea a hush fell over the auditorium as the lights went down
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
Moeller's Marshall then lived up to his billing and eventually was able to hush the Bombers fans with his final touchdown, which came with five minutes left. Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 17 Sep. 2022 The booing had been so harsh that Celtics star Jayson Tatum tried to hush the fans. Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022 A quarter of a century later, Wolf has yet to hush up. Tom Layberger, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022 And are other people in the party telling him to hush up and not talk about this? Robert Goulder, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022 Despite glittering blankets of snow that hush the region; despite warm, colorful hats that perhaps were holiday gifts; despite rugged, skid-proof boots ... these are months that chill us.cleveland, 31 Jan. 2022 Democrats and voting-rights activists aren’t unaware of these facts but hush up about them so as not to undercut the voter-suppression story line. Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2022 Beijing routinely uses market access as a powerful leverage to force Western business to hush up on human rights, or to toe its lines on issues such as Taiwan and Hong Kong. Nectar Gan And Steve George, CNN, 19 Nov. 2021 Enjoy the music and the company of other people who know to hush when it’s being made.al, 29 Oct. 2021
Adjective
Nickelodeon is offering me three hundred thousand dollars in hush money to not talk publicly about my experience on the show? Alexandra Del Rosariostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2022 Nickelodeon is offering me three hundred thousand dollars in hush money to not talk publicly about my experience on the show? Alexandra Del Rosariostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2022 Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen testified in Congress that in 2016 Weisselberg reimbursed him $130,000 in hush money to pay the adult film star Stormy Daniels, who'd had an affair with Trump in 2006. Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2022 Each agency is hush about the specifics of the exercise. Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 1 Feb. 2022 As part of their reporting, it was revealed that Nixon and his highest-level aides had willfully intervened to cover-up the break-in, attempting to stop the FBI from investigating the burglary; and keeping the burglars silent with hush money. Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2022 Nickelodeon is offering me three hundred thousand dollars in hush money to not talk publicly about my experience on the show?Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022 Nickelodeon is offering me $300,000 in hush money to not talk publicly about my experience on the show? Zack Sharf, Variety, 5 Aug. 2022 Nickelodeon is offering me three hundred thousand dollars in hush money to not talk publicly about my experience on the show? Christian Holub, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2022
Noun
Formula One motor racing might be just the kind of noisy marketing tool luxury car makers need in the hush of the electric era. Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 24 June 2022 After the screening—no walkouts—in the hush of the film’s ambiguous cut to black, Cronenberg and his team took the stage for a Q. & A. with the director of the Toronto International Film Festival, Cameron Bailey. Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022 The image elicited a similar hush when the rest of the team saw it during an in-person group meeting. Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 July 2022 By the time the coronavirus pandemic restricted gatherings in 2020, a hush had fallen over Hong Kong.New York Times, 30 June 2022 The pair of runs gave the Tigers a 4-1 lead, and sent a hush over 4,174 spectators at Goss Stadium. Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 13 June 2022 There are times when a silent hush falls over the stage.New York Times, 9 June 2022 Monday, his blast was far from the main reason for a hush in the stands. Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 May 2022 How to explain the song that somehow emerges out of the same chords strummed over and over; the commotion and sense of impending doom backstage and then the pin-drop hush on opening night; the vast stillness that precedes the decisive gesture?New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb
back-formation from husht hushed, from Middle English hussht, from huissht, interjection used to enjoin silence