Sentence examples for Awkward hush from inspiring English sources
As they were ushered to a table, the story has it, an awkward hush fell over the room.
On Christmas Day, when my brother and sister arrive with their white families, and I try to talk about what's going on in America with regard to race, the conversation falls to an awkward hush, and the gingerbread comes crumbling down.
Instead, an awkward hush fell over the courtroom, in part because Li couldn't make it through an answer without being reprompted by the prosecutor, but also because the lie of solidarity was being unraveled and laid out in front of the young men who had been stupid enough to believe in it.
I'm on my lunch break, and I was wondering if you would mind if my son and I played basketball with you?" A hush fell over the court as an awkward handshake of two very different people took place.
Yes, those cases were more morally troubling than the average procedural (the team's awkward defence of a millionaire's son accused of rape, for example, or their attempts to hush up a notorious madam's client list).
