shush
interjection
hush (used as a command to be quiet or silent).
shushes
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present tense formof shush (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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A staffer shushes the Times journalists talking in the hallway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
Go into hysterics if someone shushes them in a theater?
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2023
So I lean over and say, in a very quiet whisper, “That bowing … ” Before the third word is out, the woman in front of me whips her head around, glares, and shushes me.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2018
The man could not hit a fairway, make a putt or do anything worthy of one of his patented crowd shushes.
From Golf Digest ● Sep. 29, 2018
Kelton shushes me, and I know why—the distressed voice of a girl is a bleeding wound in a sea of sharks—but I don’t have time to formulate a better course of action here.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
