Sentence examples for shush! from inspiring English sources
verb
To be quiet; to keep quiet.
- He wouldn't shush so I kicked him.
He mocked himself, talking fondly about his wife and telling a story about his five-year-old daughter complaining about being told to shush while her father did yet another radio interview.
They call their dogs, tie their shoelaces, shush their teething babies and look for reassurance to the striking of the town clock.
Dragons Were the show ever to devolve into silliness (what? "devolve" you say? Oh shush), we'd have to keep watching if only to see what kind of Armageddon the Khaleesi's fire-breathing brood might yet cause.
She resists me, so I must shush her like a child.
She screams and I have to shush her again.
"Bitch!" Malinda turned around to glower at her, and raise her hand to her lips in a gesture denoting not "Shush" but "Shut up and sing".
Even if you got inside, the librarians would shush you, carping about how the "young fry" read nothing but "the trashy": Scott, Cooper, and Dickens (one century's garbage being, as ever, another century's Great Books).
"I've had to ask, 'Who wants to go to jail for a shush fight?' " .
She would try to shush her baby sisters when they made noise.
"We don't let people shush other people," Christian said.
"Shuga, shush," Camae says to King, in response to his transparent come-on.
