Sentence examples for which hush from inspiring English sources

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Lavery has made her own trip to Lourdes, and she reports back entertainingly — on the shrine's loudspeakers, which hush the public (with the exception, evidently, of the Italians); the toilets marked "Femmes Malades" and "Hommes Malades"; the photographs of "the Cured".

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It snows, which hushes the film.

In particular, the suit says that Cohen, or Trump — "EC LLC" or "DD" — had moved to bring an arbitration proceeding against Clifford, threatening her with a million-dollar penalty, which the Hush Agreement had stipulated would be the remedy if the agreement were broken; the most basic purpose of Clifford's lawsuit is to stop the arbitration, which her suit calls a "bogus" process.

However, James holds that there is "nothing final in any actually given equilibrium of human ideals, [so that] as our present laws and customs have fought and conquered other past ones, so they will in their turn be overthrown by any newly discovered order which will hush up the complaints that they still give rise to, without producing others louder still" (WB, 206).

I asked them if they had anything that sounded like a lullaby and they sang us "Si Ei Lwli Mabi", which means "Hush My Little Baby" in English.

After some sound system screeching was fixed -- by a court directive that witnesses testify while seated, which somehow hushed the microphone feedback -- Mr. Dawson, a 52-year-old air traffic controller, began describing the air routes around Heathrow Airport near London from which Pan Am Flight 103 took off shortly before it blew up at about 7 03 p.m. on Dec. 21, 1988.

BBC Sport's Saj Chowdhury at the ExCel said: "This vast airport terminal of a building, which lay hushed for a little more than two weeks is alive again the sound of sport, cheers and popular music.

There were only a few out bursts from the opposition which were hushed with a librarian style 'shush' from the crowd.

There's also a daft number sung by a Foreign Office spy ("Don't ever ask who won the war / Don't ever ask what the war was for / It's hush-hush"), which is, says Bankes-Jones, "exacthe the same as all this bollocks about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq".

Instead there was an ominous hush which has to be a concern for Ashton and his admirers.

In my imagination, a bank — a real bank — is suffused with a hush, which is interrupted, rarely, by the low gong of a massive vault slamming shut.

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