| Claire was bouncing the baby up and down on her knee, and making shushing noises. |
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| Yallac followed suit, lying on her back and gazing up at the endless expanse of stars, listening to the shushing of the water on the cliffs. |
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| If word got out about what's to be found at Bay Area libraries, there'd be a whole lot more shushing going on. |
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| The display would likely be greeted by pandemonium, emphatic shushing, or shocked silence. |
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| A few cars passed through the lonely yellow of the street lights, their tires making soft shushing sounds on the wet pavement. |
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| Dining on the beach, surf shushing over the nearby reef, my biggest dilemma is which of five lobster menu options to select. |
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| The wind in the trees, waves shushing on the shore, birdsong or the rustle of long grass. |
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| It annoyed Nyte, keeping him up with the shushing of the wind in the nearby aspens and the constant patter-patter of rain on the roof. |
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| The only noise besides the birds or the ice crackling along the streambeds is the shushing sound of my feet across the snow. |
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| There's a field above my house where the only sounds are eagles above and wind shushing through grass and pine below. |
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| There were hardly any waves just a gentle shushing on the pebbles of the beach. |
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| He pulled the trembling girl into his arms, smoothing her hair and making quiet shushing noises. |
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| The battle hits all of Hollywood's cues for what warfare is supposed to look and sound like, including tracers, shushing, exploding shells and gore. |
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| Riggs cut her off with a shushing, knowing very well that it was impossible to make his own voice louder than hers, considering the state of things. |
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| A woman answered giggling and shushing someone to silence before speaking. |
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| She stated, holding a finger up to her lips as if shushing him. |
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| One of the men stepped forward, holding up one hand, shushing his buddies. |
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| This is tricky: giving the device the evil eye or shushing it, for instance, will not work. |
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| The crowd helps them, shushing the more rowdy members of the room until silence descends. |
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| As he did so, he put the index finger of his right hand to his lips in a shushing gesture to the partisan Spanish crowd. |
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| The avener and his young son, no more than nine years old, were bedding down the horses for the night and shushing them quietly, trying to calm them as best they could. |
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| There were swarms of people there, too, all loud and obnoxious despite the librarian's furious shushing, but I'd learned long ago to ignore all of that. |
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| My family has become a three-pronged unit, but it only seems sensible to sporadically acknowledge that two of those prongs are adult human beings who are capable of more than just feeding and shushing and wiping. |
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