31.   His polished white Mercedes is parked in the drive and petitioners, speaking in hushed tones, sit in plush chairs in the foyer waiting for an audience.

32.   I ask in hushed tones, passing by with an armful of folded laundry.

33.   I once noticed an Iranian woman speaking in hushed tones to my translator.

34.   In hushed tones Kohn explains the significance of a medical gown authenticated as belonging to the death-camp medical practice of Dr. Joseph Mengele.

35.   In Omaha, a visitor is greeted by wall-to-wall carpeting, hushed tones, and an invitation to talk in a semi-private cubicle with a job placement adviser.

36.   In the halls of marketing science, they still speak in hushed tones about Crest toothpaste and its determined effort to secure the endorsement of the American Dental Association.

37.   It was all part of an elaborate plot, he said in hushed tones, to generate public support for anti-terrorism legislation.

38.   It used to be that rookies would speak in hushed tones about all the history that wraps around Augusta like wisteria.

39.   It would have been the sign that Camilla had arrived, that she was no longer someone to refer to in hushed tones, forced to keep her distance.

40.   Lining the perimeter of the hall, parents and children clutch pages of script and rehearse lines in hushed tones.