The word "hushing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb to describe an act of quieting someone by telling them to be silent, usually with a gesture such as placing a finger to the lips. For example, "He hushed the noisy children by waving a finger and telling them to be quiet."
"Libraries over the past two decades have been changing — the old stereotype was of a hushed, dark building and a librarian with a bun and sweater set hushing everyone," said Kate P. Horan, the library director.
When Mr Boehner says that Mr Obama has "sabotaged" the chances for immigration legislation, what he is saying is that his Tea-Party faction is a creature of whim and slight, uninterested in policy but hot-tempered at the merest provocation, and that the announcement of new policies has wrecked his chances of hushing the beast long enough to get some sensible legislation past it.
The monopolies' habit of hushing up safety problems erodes public trust in nuclear power, which for all its troubles must surely be part of the future energy mix.Japan should end the regional monopolies, separate the generation and transmission of electricity and establish a tough regulator to oversee the terms under which incumbents allow newcomers to connect to the grid.
He publicly accused Mr Vasilache of being one of those responsible for hushing up the cases related to the 1989 Revolution.
Conversely, it is a healthy sign when you are an interesting enough country to be spied on, when your counter-intelligence service is smart enough to catch spies, and when you are bold enough to put them on trial rather than hushing things up.
He accuses those European newspaper editors who invoke freedom of expression while caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad of hushing up the suffering of Palestinians at the hands of Israel.
"They got the stuffing kicked out of them and they've been hush-hushing the thing ever since," he says indignantly.
My initial reaction on hearing the story on Twitter (the Carmichael scandal is bound to be hushed up by the mainstream media, predicted my dreary and inaccurate informant) was that Carmichael had shown bad character.
As night draws in, the building takes on a different quality: the wards are hushed; the endless corridors feel almost eerie.
Moscow hushed up the crime for 50 years, blaming it on the Nazis.
The road from Melbourne takes you through many miles of these hushed, charred sentinels before you come across the town itself.
