A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)
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Examples for "hiss "
Examples for "hiss "
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 .
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.
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.
6 The Livio leaves a tiny hissing sound in the background, however slight.
7 The constable took a step and the hissing of the shoe-runner sounded.
8 But the distraction caused her trance-spell to fail; her hissing snakes quieted.
9 Their shots and ours merged in the hissing medley of a tempest.
10 Sticks aflame and flying embers came in hissing showers on the water.
11 When Ralph pressed it, there was humming and hissing in the court.
12 The blades bent as he sent the boat hissing through the water.
13 Above the hissing of the fire I heard a voice and footsteps.
14 They started up the hill and met the sleet of hissing death.
15 They are angry and helpless as the log hissing to the saw.
16 He checked himself on the first hissing breath of the foul epithet.
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