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The librarian shushed the noisy children.
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When gymnasts tried to cut the silence by cheering on their competitors during the beam final, the crowd shushed loudly.
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Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2024
No music played on the building’s speakers, and the crowd of 10,000 fell almost completely silent, to the extent that when coaches and teammates tried to cheer the gymnasts on during their routines, the crowed shushed them.
—Alice Park / Paris, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
And to add injury to insult, Ionescu shushed the crowd after draining a trey in the final seconds of garbage time.
—Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
Maxwell waved his hands, shushing his musicians and teasingly zeroed in on the audience member.
—Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 27 July 2024
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Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2024
No music played on the building’s speakers, and the crowd of 10,000 fell almost completely silent, to the extent that when coaches and teammates tried to cheer the gymnasts on during their routines, the crowed shushed them.
—Alice Park / Paris, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
And to add injury to insult, Ionescu shushed the crowd after draining a trey in the final seconds of garbage time.
—Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
Maxwell waved his hands, shushing his musicians and teasingly zeroed in on the audience member.
—Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 27 July 2024
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“Shush.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shush. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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