hushed 的定义
- deliberately quiet, especially when silence is prudent, respectful, or requested: Only an occasional whisper could be heard among our hushed voices.
- having a calm silence, often because those in attendance are being respectful or are waiting to hear something: the hushed galleries of a museum; sitting nervously in the hushed courtroom.
hushed 近义词
silent
更多hushed例句
- As cars become quieter, the lull of a hushed cabin means that the ears aren’t listening to every bump in the road or shift in engine RPM.
- The user has all these options because over the last quarter-century, online dating went from a stigmatized activity discussed in hushed, embarrassed tones to the most common way couples meet in the US.
- I appreciate the hushed luxury of the libraries in private research universities, but the price of entry, to be a professor or a student, is high.
- A good director can make you feel the vibrating summer heat, the hushed tranquility of a winter night, and the deepest feelings of a person who is seemingly nothing like you.
- In Republican election committees on the Hill, “Barrow” had become a dirty word said only in hushed tones.
- Brewers and legal experts speak of him in hushed tones, with equal parts irritation and reverence.
- Even the details of an official call for a full inquiry had been hushed up by the British government.
- Cummings asks when I inform her in a hushed whisper how nervous I was to discuss these things when the office was so quiet.
- At his shows, I remember there being a hushed, breathless anticipation as we waited to see which song Smith would play next.
- O lady, mine,Hushed now is every path, and few and dimThe lamps that glimmer through the balconies.Thou sleepest!
- A murmur ran through the court-room, quickly hushed by the insistent gavel.
- The shadow of a dark cloud had fallen upon the woods, and the voices of the birds were strangely hushed.
- Every noise was hushed, and one might have heard a bat fly in the somber corridors of the Louvre.
- He reported the results before a learned scientific body, but his colleagues were so scandalized that the matter was hushed up.