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- noun Plural form of
shushing .
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Examples
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And finally and most frighteningly, there have been several reports of random shushings.
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Several shushings greeted him, and Jim wagged his hand.
A Corpse is a Corpse Browne, Richard W 2001
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His voice had risen so that all around were the troubled, whispered shushings.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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What was all this talk of Green Hands and all the shushings and warnings she had heard?
The Rilloby Fair Mystery Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1950
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Dortmunder almost came all the way to the surface of consciousness at that instant, but instead, his brain decided the noises were just Tom returning from one of his late-night filling-the-pockets forays, and so the tiny sounds from the hallway were converted in his dream factory into the shushings and plinkings of wavelets, and in that dream Tom was a giant fish with teeth, from whom Dortmunder swam and swam and swam, never quite escaping.
Drowned Hopes Westlake, Donald E. 1990
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