Hushed Sentence Examples

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  • Elise asked in a hushed voice.

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  • His voice grew hushed, as if the all-important guests behind each door might hear him.

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  • Hannah asked in a hushed tone.

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  • Later, Dean heard the movement of the mortuary men coming for Edith—the hushed conversation and the bumping and thumping as the lifeless shell of this troubled woman was bagged and forever removed from Bird Song.

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  • He spoke in a hushed tone and when he came back to the kitchen, his face was pale.

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  • No fighting you, she said in a hushed voice.

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  • The tragic death of the crown prince Rudolph hushed for a time the strife of tongues, and in the meantime Tisza brought into the ministry Ders6 Szilagyi, the most powerful debater in the House, and Sandor Wekerle, whose solid talents had hitherto been hidden beneath the bushel of an under-secretaryship. But in 1890, during the debates on the Kossuth Repatriation Bill, the attacks on the premier were renewed, and on the 13th of March he placed his resignation in the king's hands.

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  • He listened to the hushed conversation that devolved into a hushed fight.

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  • George Sand not only forgave the elopement and hushed up the scandal by a private marriage, but she settled the young couple in Paris and made over to them nearly one-half of her available property.

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  • Jessi's voice was hushed.

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  • Its strident voice is heard most loudly at times of great heat, when the song of the birds is hushed.

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  • Harmony's voice held a hushed note of reverence that irked Gabriel.

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  • Then there were voices, Gladys with a shrill laugh, than hushed giggling, a stumble on the steps, a grunt and finally silence.

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  • It's all hushed up by the media and whatever but god, are they at it.

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  • Later, Dean heard the movement of the mortuary men coming for Edith—the hushed conversation and the bumping and thumping as the lifeless shell of this troubled woman was bagged and forever removed from Bird Song.

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  • It was a huge shock to the system and a hushed awe set upon us out of fear of jinxing it.

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  • Teachers huddle in dark corners and in hushed tones recite words of wisdom gleaned from these pages.

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  • For three more days the magician just glowers at him, not saying a word - bitter, hushed, resentful, silence.

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  • The rich, poetic lyrics were listened to in hushed silence, creating a great sense of atmosphere.

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  • At the Spa in hushed, candle-lit ambiance, skilled masseurs expel my tension to lilting melodies.

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  • No more does the ardent nightingale carol its joyous songs, and the sweet and holy melodies of the immortal dove are hushed.

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  • The orchestral prelude begins with hushed strings presenting the ' Judgment ' theme.

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  • To the Rock Majority, however, mention of the eighties brings hushed reverence for who?

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  • I remember my mother telling me in hushed tones about some ' fall from grace. ' Maybe you can enlighten me more... .

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  • A quiet, hushed whisper upon which the weight of the blood of kings weighs.

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  • I weathered some merry snow-storms, and spent some cheerful winter evenings by my fireside, while the snow whirled wildly without, and even the hooting of the owl was hushed.

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  • The conversation was hushed.

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  • I remember my mother telling me in hushed tones about some ' fall from grace. ' Maybe you can enlighten me more....

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  • Upon hearing the hushed talk about her behavior, Dunst's camp released a statement saying that she was absolutely fine.

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  • In darkened dorm rooms across the country, in hushed conversations over a drink at the bar and throughout Internet forums, true, evil Ouija board stories spread like wildfire.

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  • A few minutes later, I spotted Howie and Betsy in a hushed conversation.

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  • Jenn's voice was hushed, her gaze growing penetrating.

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  • His words were hushed.

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  • Darian asked in a hushed voice.

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  • Jake asked in a hushed voice.

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  • If not for the painful sunlight, she would've looked up at the hushed note in his voice.

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  • Darian wasn't crying for once, and his voice almost too hushed to make out.

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  • Gabriel asked in a hushed voice.

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  • She said the word in a hushed voice that sounded husky and sexy with her newfound status as a seductress.

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  • Her question was hushed.

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  • With me, he said in a hushed tone.

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  • A man and a woman in their prime stood before them, and the light murmuring of the crowd hushed.

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  • During the hurried explanations of her mother's condition, her trip home and hushed comments on the recent happenings, it was moments before Dean noticed Janet O'Brien sitting in the far corner.

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  • Dan asked in a hushed tone.

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  • At her hushed tone, Rhyn turned.

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  • His voice took on a hushed note.

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  • Brutus ran down from the barn, barking at the new arrivals and Alex hushed him.

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  • Brutus barked and she hushed him.

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  • Carmen stared at the door a moment, listening to his hushed voice.

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  • All talk hushed around the tiny table where their families shared their first and last meals of the day.

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  • Her words were hushed.

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  • If you stay as my guardian, I will pay you what gold you ask for, she said in a hushed voice.

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  • Taran trailed the two from the room, ignoring the hushed exchange of words.

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  • More hushed fighting drew his attention.

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  • The disturbed note in her hushed voice made his instincts clamor.

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  • A hushed silence fell over the verandah and the strains of an old song filtered soft music through the air.

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  • But as they had appealed to Napoleon, who would not suffer his name to be mentioned, the government had to allow the matter to be hushed up, and the prisoners were acquitted.

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  • Rhyn's voice was hushed.

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  • W. C. Sellar, English humorist, teacher America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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  • How Max Clifford kept things hushed HUSH is anything but hushed unless the gossip among its famous clientele must be kept hush-hush.

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  • In the hushed silence I did not look down, not even once.

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  • Anatole Kuragin's father managed somehow to get his son's affair hushed up, but even he was ordered out of Petersburg.

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  • The duel between Pierre and Dolokhov was hushed up and, in spite of the Emperor's severity regarding duels at that time, neither the principals nor their seconds suffered for it.

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  • The mistress rocked and hushed her baby and when anyone came into the cellar asked in a pathetic whisper what had become of her husband who had remained in the street.

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  • Mary studied her reflectively and finally spoke in a hushed tone, as if she didn't actually want to know the answer to her question.

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