Example sentences for: hushed

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

  • The effect is that of a hushed chapel, and on the altar is this gorgeous riddle of a painting, with its tilted plate of ripe pears, its pendulous eggplants, its great blue-black bedspread draped across the lower half of the painting, and its round, wicker-wound ginger jar, carefully placed in the middle.

  • Green's new novel, Loving , has just received a very favorable review in The New Yorker . Shawn--"with his usual hushed delicacy of speech and manner"--inquires of the novelist whether he could possibly reveal what prompted the creation of such an exquisite work.

  • But those who follow this stuff should recognize that, like the theory Clinton arranged hush money for Hubbell, Safire's hints about what got hushed up are pure conjecture.

  • The presentation of these items is hushed and museumlike, with just dash of whimsy.

  • He could play in a hushed, romantic style, then plunge, at a moment's notice, into fiery, Latin-flavored syncopation.


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