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Meanings of sibilance in English

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Usage of sibilance in English
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Just long enough to hear the hushed sibilance of a welcome-home chuckle.
Dexter in the Dark
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Their reedy sibilance built steadily until the spaceplane rocked on its undercarriage.
The Reality Dysfunction
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His voice was still that jolly Santa voice with an edge of sibilance.
The Laughing Corpse
4
Stirring sounds, then the faint sibilance of feet, and the door clicked open.
Lost in translation
5
He could hear the faint sibilance of Gorham's clothing as the man approached.
The Best Made Plans
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The soft sibilance of the turning of a page and solitude.
The Irish Times
7
At the slight sibilance of the whisper the old man opened his eyes again.
The Twenty-Fourth of June: Midsummer's Day
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A sibilance such as that of many voices speaking, subdued.
Return of the Crimson Guard
9
Orr snickered with a slight, mucid sibilance and turned back to his work, squatting.
Catch-22
10
So now he puckered his lips to the sibilance of a canoe-song, and waited.
The Silent Places
11
A drag, the soft sibilance of a moving thing, was on his oar blade.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
12
She caught her breath quickly-Trentcould hear its soft sibilance.
The Hermit of Far End
13
The intervals between each sentence, each word, punctuated by the strange sibilance of her breathing.
Back on murder
14
The gentle sibilance of air drawn through the glowing nest of tobacco is the only sound.
Shandygaff / A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life &...
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He felt like the author to whose ears is borne the ominous sibilance of the pit.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
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One word was repeated with a long-drawn sibilance:
The Soul of the War
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