hushed / hʌʃt /

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hushed 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. deliberately quiet, especially when silence is prudent, respectful, or requested: Only an occasional whisper could be heard among our hushed voices.
  2. 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

adj. 形容词 adjective

silent

更多hushed例句

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. In Republican election committees on the Hill, “Barrow” had become a dirty word said only in hushed tones.
  6. Brewers and legal experts speak of him in hushed tones, with equal parts irritation and reverence.
  7. Even the details of an official call for a full inquiry had been hushed up by the British government.
  8. Cummings asks when I inform her in a hushed whisper how nervous I was to discuss these things when the office was so quiet.
  9. At his shows, I remember there being a hushed, breathless anticipation as we waited to see which song Smith would play next.
  10. O lady, mine,Hushed now is every path, and few and dimThe lamps that glimmer through the balconies.Thou sleepest!
  11. A murmur ran through the court-room, quickly hushed by the insistent gavel.
  12. The shadow of a dark cloud had fallen upon the woods, and the voices of the birds were strangely hushed.
  13. Every noise was hushed, and one might have heard a bat fly in the somber corridors of the Louvre.
  14. He reported the results before a learned scientific body, but his colleagues were so scandalized that the matter was hushed up.