Sentence examples for shushing of from inspiring English sources

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I remember stopping and listening to the sea, the gentle shushing of the waves against the pebbles, the rustling rise and dying fall of it.

The waves broke with the constant shushing of a running faucet, lending a calming, white-noise echo to the Provincetown Bay.

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So, as it stands, this year's carnival of football thankfully won't be soundtracked by the shushing rattle of thousands of caxirola.

He hears just the tone, something like the shush of waves.

The players emerged slowly from a circular configuration at the heart of the room, to the windy shush of breath through paper megaphones.

For one sweet moment he sensed more than remembered the rhythmic moan of a turning wheel, the gentle shush-shush-shush of water splashing, a slant of silver moonlight, an intake of breath as soft as the noise made by the wings of a moth, but he couldn't conjure up the face of a girl.

She hears her upstairs neighbor arising to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, the thud of newspapers on doorsteps in the morning, the screams of three small brothers in the hall and the shushes of their parents.

His amorality is all the more shocking for its modest tone, and for coming from a man capable of noticing, as he walks through the calm night of St. Nils, the "occasional faint crunch of a snail" mingled with the "shush" of fallen leaves.

Now another sound, of traffic roaring through the gallery, fed live by Parreno from the road-tunnel under the Barbican, along with the amplified hum of the windswept piazza outside, and the patter and shush of the fountains in the lake (this last recording is in homage to Duchamp's 1917 Fountain, the unusable urinal that still manages to upset some people).

Hear the shush of an endless and clean surf and clear seas as far as the horizon.

But in addition to her One Republic song I hear the shush of the speeding train; the open mouth chewing of the man across from me; the wails of the eight children in that Orthodox family.

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