Sentence examples for a hush of from inspiring English sources

Soon his three backup singers were adding a hushed descant, and the audience responded with a hush of its own.

A glass of soda, the "surface of it a hush of bubbles".

I became aware of a hush of anticipation, a tremendous surrounding absence.

The vast crowds move in a hush of indignation, anger distilled to a wordless essence.

A hush of serenity spread over her like a mink coat.

In general, she adopts a less-is-more approach and casts a hush of melancholy over everything.

I sensed, around me, a collective hush of relief and wonder.

"Is that the only reason you want me to stay alive," she exploded, "so I can do your fucking editing?" All around us there was a temporary hush of pens, then the scratching of scholarship returned.

Chou En-lai's toast, addressed by baritone Sanford Sylvan directly to the audience, brought what pianist and writer William R. Braun called "a shocked hush of chastened admiration".

"I am sorry about your dog," he told me again, blowing out the candle with a sweet hush of breath that closed my eyes and sent me slipping back into sleep.

All the employees were familiar with their music and their reputation, and even though both men were always polite to all of us, a strange hush of terror would settle over the store whenever they shopped.