hush
interjection
(used as a command to be silent or quiet.)
have hushed
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present perfectof hush.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Fearful of losing trade, clothing manufacturers have hushed up the situation which causes this unpleasant phenomenon.
From Time Magazine Archive
And though I would have hushed the crowd There was no mother's son but said, 'What is the figure in a shroud Upon a gaudy bed?'
From Responsibilities and other poems by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
I have kept him quiet; I have hushed up the truth.
From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
There 79 was no moon and the very winds seemed to have hushed their whispers in the cottonwoods.
From Tharon of Lost Valley by Frank Tenney Johnson
Immortal and beloved, how should they pass away, for, beside their secret places, of old we have hushed our voices, and children have played with them no less than with Jesus of Nazareth.
From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Edward Hutton
