Examples of hush up in a Sentence
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Based on a fan-shot video, there may have been a couple of fans in the crowd who picked up on what was happening during the song’s opening guitar arpeggios, but everyone seemed to erupt once Sting began singing the first verse (before quickly hushing up to take in the moment).
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2024
The births had been hushed up; Williams concealed her pregnancies by wearing a baggy coat at work.
—The Week Staff, theweek, 6 June 2024
In other words, money that a person pays someone to hush up something.
—Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 6 May 2024
The same qualities that attract residents to small communities – a sense of trust that can come from knowing everyone in town – sometimes curdle into hushing up questions about concerning practices.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2023
To help reveal a very real issue, but one that is often hushed up.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Feb. 2024
The Church itself looks to have been complicit in hushing up this scandal for years, decades.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2010
But everyone in the country had been going through this, and all that was hushed up at Cannes.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
To fill out the scorecard, the felonious former president has rolled up a rap sheet:
In New York, for allegedly falsifying business documents to hush up his extramarital dalliances.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2024
The births had been hushed up; Williams concealed her pregnancies by wearing a baggy coat at work.
—The Week Staff, theweek, 6 June 2024
In other words, money that a person pays someone to hush up something.
—Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 6 May 2024
The same qualities that attract residents to small communities – a sense of trust that can come from knowing everyone in town – sometimes curdle into hushing up questions about concerning practices.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2023
To help reveal a very real issue, but one that is often hushed up.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Feb. 2024
The Church itself looks to have been complicit in hushing up this scandal for years, decades.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2010
But everyone in the country had been going through this, and all that was hushed up at Cannes.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
To fill out the scorecard, the felonious former president has rolled up a rap sheet:
In New York, for allegedly falsifying business documents to hush up his extramarital dalliances.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
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“Hush up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hush%20up. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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