Example sentences for: hush

How can you use “hush” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It seems that Hersh had based his project on a cache of secret papers that were said to provide the strongest evidence yet for such long-rumored Camelot dung as a prior JFK marriage, his relationship with the Mob and his agreement to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in hush money to his lover Marilyn Monroe.

  • Even though I'm a journalist now, the former staffer in me wants to hush the blatherers.

  • Hoe cakes , originally baked on hoe, and hush puppies , allegedly so named because pieces of them were fed to dogs to keep them quite, are variations of what Southerners call corn bread and New Englanders call (spider) johnnycake: spider because it was baked in a spider , a black, cast-iron skillet.

  • Newly exposed Oval Office Nixon no-nos include: early plans to destroy the tapes, thanking a supporter for supplying funds Nixon knew were being used as hush money for the Watergate burglars, a plot to "shakedown" the milk lobby for more campaign contributions, and various schemes to interfere with the Democratic primaries by creating spurious grassroots campaigns for Ted Kennedy and Jesse Jackson.

  • The publication also says Starr is pursuing the testimony of a Miami lawyer who, a friend of his recounts, says that in 1992 he was paid to "track down women with whom Clinton had sex and silence them" with hush money.


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