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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
hush .
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Examples
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[There are murmurs and "hushes"] There are two universities in Moscow, the old one and the new one.
Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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Noticing in the next act that her box was empty, Vronsky, rousing indignant "hushes" in the silent audience, went out in the middle of a solo and drove home.
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1869
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I wish I was better at photoshopping, but with the 4 'hushes' I think the cover should be Nicole in the middle with the other 4 behind her with tape on their mouths ...
unknown title 2009
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I wish I was better at photoshopping, but with the 4 'hushes' I think the cover should be Nicole in the middle with the other 4 behind her with tape on their mouths ...
unknown title 2009
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Their conjugal affection still is ty'd,And still the mournful race is multiply'd:They bill, they tread; Alcyone compress'd,Sev'n days sits brooding on her floating nest:A wintry queen: her sire at length is kind,Calms ev'ry storm, and hushes ev'ry wind;Prepares his empire for his daughter's ease,And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas.
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Their conjugal affection still is ty'd,And still the mournful race is multiply'd:They bill, they tread; Alcyone compress'd,Sev'n days sits brooding on her floating nest:A wintry queen: her sire at length is kind,Calms ev'ry storm, and hushes ev'ry wind;Prepares his empire for his daughter's ease,And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas.
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The last puffs left us, and in the hushes, between the rumbles of the nearing thunder, the voices of the men aloft on the yards came to one's ear as if they were right beside one instead of being hundreds of feet away and up in the air.
CHAPTER XXVIII 2010
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On my forehead, the concrete is cold and a benevolent nurse hushes, presses the compress to my skin.
Day 7: Pigeon Savant Jane Flett 2011
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In the hushes of the Bowery Ballroom, expect to capture every nuance.
A Little Older, but No Less Noisy Andy Beta 2011
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But who could be so repellent as to take the role of Timothy West's council leader, a venal, oleaginous man who hushes up a disgusting conspiracy?
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