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- verb Present participle of
shush . - noun The act of making a shush sound to silence somebody.
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Examples
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RICHARD: I think the only response to matronly shushing is to be equally rude, to shush back, so to speak.
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Don't you just love the sound of beads enticingly covering a doorway "shushing" as you sashay past ... like entering into a new world where only that sound exists for a moment ....
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And this can sometimes mean "shushing" the external voices so that we can actually hear our own (the inner one).
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And this can sometimes mean "shushing" the external voices so that we can actually hear our own the inner one.
Tabby Biddle: What's a Woman in Transition to Do? Tabby Biddle 2010
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And this can sometimes mean "shushing" the external voices so that we can actually hear our own (the inner one).
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Don't you just love the sound of beads enticingly covering a doorway "shushing" as you sashay past...like entering into a new world where only that sound exists for a moment....
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Eurella made a severe "shushing" gesture, but Eutok took several steps toward his brother, a pleasant expression frozen on his lips that was not at all reflected in his eyes.
Darkness of the Light David_Peter 2007
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A road accident strands a young woman Bree Turner in the woods where she is terrorized and captured by an unexplained subhuman armed with curiously advanced sword-and-sorcery-style cutlery, whose hobby appears to be the manufacture of formerly live scarecrows and whose violent actions are offset by a cute little "shushing" schtick.
Archive 2005-10-30 2005
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A road accident strands a young woman Bree Turner in the woods where she is terrorized and captured by an unexplained subhuman armed with curiously advanced sword-and-sorcery-style cutlery, whose hobby appears to be the manufacture of formerly live scarecrows and whose violent actions are offset by a cute little "shushing" schtick.
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Museum attendants should be stopped from "shushing" children and displays should be hung low enough for youngsters to see properly, according to a manifesto to make museums more family-friendly published today.
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