hushing

How To Use hushing In A Sentence

• The people around the village began to take notice, hushing children and pushing them back into their small houses that were made out of patched mud and straw.
• The display would likely be greeted by pandemonium, emphatic shushing, or shocked silence.
• The lady sitting next to me is hushing her crying baby by singing to her in what sounds like Russian.
• ‘Calm, calm,’ she chirred softly, a finger touching my jaw and hushing my stumbling chatter.
• Yallac followed suit, lying on her back and gazing up at the endless expanse of stars, listening to the shushing of the water on the cliffs.
• One of the men stepped forward, holding up one hand, shushing his buddies.
• If word got out about what's to be found at Bay Area libraries, there'd be a whole lot more shushing going on.
• She seemed delighted to see these ladies, who belong to the Junta, and led us into a large hall where a score of nurses and babies were performing a symphony of singing, hushing, crying, lullabying, and other nursery music. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
• I knew they were introducing new charging structures, but they should be promoting these discounted schemes to the people they were designed for, not hushing them up on the bosses' orders.
• Dining on the beach, surf shushing over the nearby reef, my biggest dilemma is which of five lobster menu options to select.