Words similar to mum

Example sentences for: mum

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

The Post mentions the various places in the Washington area where the meat might have ended up, including the Pentagon food system, but is mum on whether any got near the burger lover in the White House.
Because we were an alien family, dad and mum were very keen that we learnt how to compose ourselves in this new society.
As Scott Shuger wrote, it was a "heart-wrenching story about a 9-year-old boy who concealed the accidental death of his mother for a month, leaving her body in their home because he was afraid of being sent to an orphanage, the Post goes with the bad taste headline of the year, century and millennium: "Mother Died, but Boy, 9, Kept Mum."
The coverage is mum about whether or not the Supreme Court has ever ruled on this issue, which surely must have come up before, no?
Under fuck up we have added the well-known opening lines to Philip Larkin's poem This be the Verse, the only use of fuck to be regularly found in dictionaries of quotations: They fuck you up, your mum and dad.