hush

Object

• whisper: A quiet, hushed whisper upon which the weight of the blood of kings weighs.
• reverence: To the Rock Majority, however, mention of the eighties brings hushed reverence for who?
• tone: The voices around me spoke in such hushed tones.
• awe: But after a few steps, she stopped in hushed awe, her eyes drinking in her surroundings.
• silence: In the hushed silence I did not look down, not even once.
• voice: In a hushed voice he said, " Remember.

Converse of object

• awe: There was a sort of awed hush around the set.

Adjective modifier

• deathly: There is always a deathly hush on the phone at this point.
• breathless: And -- breathless hush and all that -- James Utechin fought out the final over.
• expectant: The chattering of the crowd dies down to an expectant hush, only broken by the occasional whistle and the odd yell.
• solemn: For many years I have noticed that when God is about to work He produces stillness -- a solemn hush -- and expectation.
• sudden: She seemed oblivious to the sudden hush in the café as they entered.
• reverential: Every time a US delegate speaks on the floor of a conference room, a reverential hush descends.

Modifies a noun

• puppy: Maybe I could get a stool up there and start wearing hush puppies.
• button: Smoke alarms should be of the type with a ' hush button ' .

Modifying Another Word

• so: How came ye muffled in so hush a mask?
• very: Louisa Brown, Lesley Browning and Andrew Henderson tell all off the record, on the QT and very hush hush.
• all: It's all hushed up by the media and whatever but god, are they at it.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• up: He later learns she died of pestilence which was promptly hushed up by the hotel to prevent a scare.

Possessives

• morning: When you awaken in the morning's hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight.