Sentence examples for solemn hush from inspiring English sources
A solemn hush descended on Liège at lunchtime on Wednesday as the Belgian city mourned the victims of the carnage wrought by a lone gunman that left four people dead and scores injured.
Believers are people who try to insert Jee-zus into conversations at parties; who put themselves down, with writhings of unease, for perfectly normal human behaviour; who are constantly trying to create a solemn hush that invites a fart, a hiccup, a bit of subversion.
And a solemn hush falls over the crowd as Clinton orders us to "start acting like Americans again".
So, in all, a quiet week, as though as a solemn hush had blanketed the entire territory.
"As he was carried past through the banks of humanity that lined Pennsylvania Avenue a solemn, reverent hush held the living walls," a reporter for The Associated Press wrote.
The interviewer, solemn-faced, hush-voiced, now offered Artie a chance to abase himself.
The history of racism in America, and of efforts to overcome it, is usually addressed by Hollywood with a solemn, anxious, churchly hush and flattened into a tableau of villains and saints.
In freezing temperatures and under gunmetal skies, another town hushed to a solemn standstill today to bury one of its sons killed in Afghanistan.
