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How to use hushing in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word hushing? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
If they'd spent the money, instead of hushing it up and keeping people in the dark, they'd still be around today.
These are painful realities and they do not become any less real or any less painful by hushing them up.
They're hushing it up, but the smart money is on Hogan's ribs being broken.
The lady sitting next to me is hushing her crying baby by singing to her in what sounds like Russian.
She stroked me lightly on my head, hushing me and telling me how strong I had been.
Right as I opened my mouth to deny this, she put a finger to my lips, hushing me.
She automatically wrapped her arms around me and rubbed my back, hushing me in a soothing way.
The corollary being the fear that led people to hushing up problems in the first place.
He publicly accused Mr Vasilache of being one of those responsible for hushing up the cases related to the 1989 Revolution.
The people around the village began to take notice, hushing children and pushing them back into their small houses that were made out of patched mud and straw.
There are ways to curb it, but before hushing your puppy, make sure he's not trying to tell you something important.
We hope that despite obvious hushing up of facts and findings in this area we will be able to find answers.
You are rotating and moving the loaded cylinder forward as well as extending the breech block while compressing the mainspring and cylinder hushing spring.
These attitudes range from authoritarianism to inaction, including avoiding the problem, exclusion, hushing up matters, amicable settlement, favouritism, referring the case to a higher authority and going to court.
There was snow outside, too, hushing the world in sunstruck brilliance.
The power of a wave of water released from a tank was used for extraction of metal ores in a method known as hushing.
There are the remains of hushing gulleys on the slopes of the mountain, created during lead mining of the industrial revolution.
The Sumgait events were organized with a view to hushing up and concealing the legal and peaceful quest of the Nagorno Karabagh people for self-determination after 70 years of unlawful subjugation to Azerbaijani rule.
It is possible that the original sound was an apical sibilant, like the Basque s, which is halfway between a hissing sibilant and a hushing sibilant.
Hushing was also widely used in Britain in the Medieval and later periods to extract lead and tin ores.
Examples from Classical Literature
Some sin, some compromise, some hushing of that inner voice, something wrong.
This let old Simon in for it again and there was no hushing it up a second time.
Myrtle was impatient, and her mother had a way of hushing up when she was in this mood.
There they waited, hushing their breaths, listening for the echo of his step on the stairs.
Above the splashing and the little hushing draw, the church bells sounded from baja, calling the bay to Mass.
Now the hushing of desires is no longer enough, but their sating is demanded.
Then, hushing his footsteps, he passes to his own room, lights his pipe, and delivers himself to the Spectres it invokes at midnight.
But when I raised my voice, she put out a hushing hand to my arm.
She paced the room with it the livelong night, hushing it and soothing it.
He half rose from his chair, hushing my mocking word with a gesture.
The trees rustled around them as if hushing the voice of sorrow.
Three tumbrils faring away with their dread loads over the hushing snow.
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