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Meanings of hiss in English
Synonyms
Examples for "hissing"
Examples for "hissing"
1
What is the matter with you?' said Gimli in a hissing whisper.
2
On second thought, the hissing was coming from two places at once.
3
The people repeated and increased their hissing; the knights continued their clapping.
4
I did not answer, but she went on hissing questions at me.
5
The hatch closed, and I heard water hissing in the ballast tanks.
1
That said; connections made today are likely to fizzle out into nothing!
2
But Travis had seen other such efforts fizzle out over the years.
3
But any momentum behind the deal appeared to fizzle quickly on Thursday.
4
Days of protests seemed to fizzle out, but continued in some places.
5
You can expect the deluges to fizzle out in the early evening.
1
Three tumbrils faring away with their dread loads over the hushing snow.
2
Helena stepped forward and wrapped him in her skirt, hushing the cries.
3
He entered and found a young mother hushing her baby to rest.
4
The woman gave him a mild jab with her hand, hushing him.
5
As for hushing it up, I'm hushing it up myself, thank you.
1
The sibilation produced by the sap, which exudes copiously therefrom, is not conducive to composition.
2
Their fall was a soft sibilation, a long-drawn sigh.
3
From far to the south drifted a fainter sibilation, like an echo of thirty-three's whistle.
4
My lord prolonged the sibilation of his 'Yes,' in the way of absent- minded men.
5
He was turning back when he fancied he heard the sibilation of a whispering in the room.
Usage of hiss in English
1
Something in the soft hiss of the words made the Ranger turn.
2
The manager was heard to hiss from the shelter of the wings:
3
A great hiss momentarily drowned out the thunder of the horses' hooves.
4
The sound track picked up the crash and hiss of the breakers.
5
Snarg let him know it was a bad idea with a hiss.
6
The noise had always been there, a background hiss-patter-splash of falling water.
7
The groans of the sufferers mingled with the hiss of escaping ketchup.
8
Shaking involuntarily, Buttons moved quickly ahead, ignoring the warning hiss of Cross-eye.
9
He could hear the hiss of compressed air from somewhere behind him.
10
Only it wasn't power that would hiss up out of the steam.
11
The screeches become words that hiss and whistle and puff and roar.
12
Shannon could hear the deconstructing literature crackle and hiss behind the subtext.
13
Nor did he hear the hiss that bubbled up from the depths.
14
Her answer came, swift and fierce as the hiss of a snake:
15
He heard a yell, and then a sound like a long hiss.
16
Maeve let out a sudden hiss of anger, the sound eerily loud.
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Hiss through the time
Hiss across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common