How to Use quash in a Sentence

quash

verb

• Willis last week sought to quash a subpoena in the case.
  — Holly Bailey and Amy Gardner The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 23 Jan. 2024
• The coup attempt—now known as the Beer Hall Putsch—would swiftly be quashed.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
• This spring, the West Bank locked down hard and fast in a bid to quash the coronavirus outbreak.
  — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2020
• The lawyers who quashed Elon Musk’s huge pay package want $6 billion.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
• The road outside was closed in an apparent effort to quash any street protests.
  — Sopheng Cheang, ajc, 14 Feb. 2023
• Republicans quashed the motion as it was made and adjourned for the week.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024
• While Earth teems with life, our neighbor seems determined to quash it.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
• But such efforts have been unable to quash doubt, even among the war’s supporters.
  — Timothy Frye, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2024
• Eagle Forum has filed a motion in court to quash the subpoena.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 22 Sep. 2022
• To quash the ever-present threat of a revolt, punishment was sadistic and frequent.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 8 July 2023
• The state’s Republican leaders tried to quash the payments.
  — Lawrence Mower and Langston Taylor, ProPublica, 5 Nov. 2020
• Whether the court challenges will quash the negotiation rule is still a big question.
  — Byrichard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 25 Oct. 2023
• In their filing on Friday, Trump's legal team sought a court order to quash the proceedings.
  — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 14 July 2023
• Trying to quash price increases, the Fed has pushed interest rates to the highest level in more than two decades.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
• Green quashed the warrant for Gordon's arrest for failure to appear.
  — Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 8 June 2023
• Herridge and the network moved to quash them, asserting her work was protected by the 1st Amendment.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• The court denies the motion to compel and quashes the subpoena because on this record, the First Amendment bars the discovery.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 1 May 2023
• This forgiveness is not nearly as generous as Biden’s plan that was quashed last June.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
• His advisers were planning to stage a coup, and also preparing to use the military to quash protests if that coup failed.
  — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
• Even though protests inspired by her death have been quashed by force, Iranian women are still fighting.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
• Central’s Vivian Moore dropped in a layup, Bonita Vista flung another attempt off rim, and any hope of a comeback was quashed in a 52-41 loss.
  — Luca Evans, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
• Any industry-wide fears of superhero fatigue could be quashed and quelled each time a new MCU adventure graced the big screen.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
• Two years later, Perry and Swift publicly quashed their vendettas against each other, restoring the peace.
  — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2024
• Analysts say that these signs of a broader movement could prove a potent force that would be harder for the government to quash.
  — Hyder Abbasi, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2022
• In Tibet, the Chinese state has also embarked on a campaign to quash the identity of a distinct people.
  — Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2023
• Then as now, Russia has been trying to quash Ukrainian identity, Kolomiec says.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 13 Oct. 2022
• There have been some price gains for rough diamonds, but experts are still concerned the large stockpiles that miners have could quash any rebound.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2023
• The judge ruled Bragg had no legal basis to quash the subpoena of a former prosecutor in his office.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
• But on Wednesday, an appellate court ruled in favor of the first responders, quashing the lawsuit.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• The 70-year-old has exhausted all appeals and only a royal pardon could quash the conviction.
  — Philip Heijmans, Bloomberg.com, 10 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024