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Example sentences for "hushing"

Lexicographically close words:
husbonde; huse; hush; hushed; hushes; husht; husk; husked; huskers; huskies
  1. Callista rose, still hushing her boy in her arms.

  2. She was hushing him on her knee a few minutes later, when her mother appeared in the doorway, a little money held in her trembling hands, and her eyes now openly overflowing.

  3. Callista drew herself sharply from her mother's detaining arms and sat down on the porch edge, hushing the child whom their talk had disturbed.

  4. Before the signs to war's sublime belief 167 Sacred, the host disparts its hushing wave.

  5. As for hushing it up, I'm hushing it up myself, thank you.

  6. Mrs. Brand's daughter, all this time hushing her baby, started up.

  7. A lady to see you, mother," said the young woman hushing her fretful baby, and looking curiously at the veiled face.

  8. That morning I was disposed for silence: the austere fury of the winter-day had on me an awing, hushing influence.

  9. Simon Basset had deprived Ozias Lamb, by shrewd management, of the old Lamb homestead; Doctor Prescott had been instrumental in hushing his voice in prayer and exhortation in prayer-meeting.

  10. Jerome called, but this time more cautiously, hushing his voice a little.

  11. With his coming a shadow fell upon her home, hushing its music and darkening its sunshine.

  12. It means, the hushing of certain words upon beloved lips; the turning of cherished eyes from visions where fathers and daughters ay, brothers and sisters are seen joined together in tender companionship or loving embrace.

  13. When Valdemar Svensen presently looked in, she made him a warning sign--and, hushing his footsteps, he went away again.

  14. He clasped her closer, hushing her with tender words, vowing he would never leave her, while the Shadow of Death gathered closer about them, threatening every instant to come between.

  15. Her voice came to him very softly, with a hushing tenderness through the miniature rush and gurgle of the water.

  16. I want my clothes unfastened," she said imperiously to Ruth, who held the ever-wakeful baby across her knees, having just succeeded in hushing it to sleep.

  17. So she gave the best help she could by taking up the screaming baby and hushing its cries, and encouraging her sisters--although her own lips were trembling and eyes filling with tears--with hopeful words.

  18. Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity.

  19. The endless singing of the stream is hushing me into a sweet drowsiness even as I write.

  20. Even now, while Stella stood at her window gazing forth into the garish moonlight, was he softly padding to and fro in the room adjoining hers, hushing the poor little wailing infant to sleep.

  21. Here is the reflective, the scholastic, penetrating the hall of song and hushing more abounding measures to its own consecrating uses.

  22. Forthwith we stole forward, Sir Richard's grasp on Pluto's collar and hushing him to silence, until we were nigh enough to catch the sound of their voices very loud and distinct.

  23. But however much of a surprise this assertion was to both men, neither gave vent to an exclamation.

  24. Emily was walking about hushing her charge, and smiling at me, so that I had a peculiar pleasure in gathering for myself the honey of endearment which she shed on the lips of the baby.

  25. I watched the shadows darken further and further along the brightness, hushing the glitter of the water.

  26. And you'll not be home a day and night before you'll be tossing and hushing him, and the moon'll not be too good for him to have, should he cry for it!

  27. And Adam, with a start, began hushing it after the fashion of a chimpanzee.

  28. In a poor room, with a sloping ceiling, and containing very little furniture, was a mite of a boy, some five or six years old, nursing and hushing a heavy child of eighteen months.

  29. Their clothing was not so warm, however, but that their noses looked red and pinched, and their small figures shrunken, as the boy walked up and down, nursing and hushing the child with its head on his shoulder.

  30. With early day Began the tumult, and shall only cease When midnight, hushing one by one the sounds Of bustle, gathers the tired brood to rest.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hushing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abatement; alleviation; buzz; calming; deadening; diminution; dreamy; drowsy; easing; effervescence; effervescent; fizz; fizzle; hiss; hissing; hush; leniency; lessening; lightening; lisp; loosening; lulling; mitigation; modulation; mollifying; pacification; pacifying; reduction; relaxation; remission; restful; rocking; sizzle; sizzling; slackening; sneeze; sniff; sniffle; snore; snoring; snort; snuff; snuffle; softening; soothing; spit; splutter; sputter; squash; squelch; swish; tempering; tranquilizing; wheeze; wheezing; whistle; whistling; whiz