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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
shush .
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Examples
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The chants that played such a prominent role prior to the elections and which here and there can be heard, are contained by the "shushes" and "quiets!" of the crowd.
Salon 2009
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Heads swiveled, but not with the kind of neck craning that would normally have included angry "shushes," escalating to vehement
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I saw the Stryker ending, the one with Wolverine in the Japanese bar, AND the one where Deadpool shushes the audience.
How many “Wolverine” endings are there? Let’s find out. » Scene-Stealers 2009
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Alexa shushes the First Lady to make her stop talking during Alexa's serve.
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Yeah, there were a few sequels at first followed by a lot of shushes ... then the kid.
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With a finger raised to her lips and a sharp shake of her head, she shushes the questions I shout over the din.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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The Youngest shushes her sister, the crumpled metal loud in the still afternoon.
Passages 2010
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Mark starts to say something, but Coché shushes him.
THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010
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He races around arranging kids and old men on benches and then shushes them in order to put me on the spot for an impromptu address.
Leah James: Haiti Hype is Dying Down, But the Rescue Continues Leah James 2010
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During the end of Bruce Boudreau's appearance on the LaVar and Dukes show on Thursday, LaVar Arrington tried to ask Boudreau about one of his Mercedes commercials, the one where he shushes the salesman with a "ya ta ta ta ta ta" gesture.
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