shush

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• Eric noticed that people in the audience were shushing each other so as to avoid having the meeting shut down.

• Danson playfully shushes her—he’s meant to have only told one or two people but everyone seems to know.

• Naomi gripped the bar, glancing back and forth between her hands and making “shush” noises to focus.

• When Barack Obama tried to shush "loose talk of war," he got as much traction as a vicar giving a sermon during a soccer riot.

• I listened, and sure enough I heard the shush, shush of something moving in the dead leaves and dry grass a little distance away.

• For once, Pelton didn't shush him; that was too close to his own attitude, at least in family-breakfast-table terminology.

• I was just about to say he could when again that shush, shush!

• The orderly stopped pushing his chair and the nurse rushed forward to shush them sternly, but it barely dampened the calls.

• Den he would pull me away—dis great, dark devil, mit his enormous paws shush as if I was a child.