Meanings of sibilation in English

The sibilation produced by the sap, which exudes copiously therefrom, is not conducive to composition.

Their fall was a soft sibilation, a long-drawn sigh.

From far to the south drifted a fainter sibilation, like an echo of thirty-three's whistle.

My lord prolonged the sibilation of his 'Yes,' in the way of absent- minded men.

He was turning back when he fancied he heard the sibilation of a whispering in the room.

The world was still, except for the sibilation of the whispering heads bunched together over the table.

A small wyvern perched on a ledge returned the familiar's angry sibilation and stretched its wings in challenge.

Her voice was peculiar, very low and sweet, and so soft that the dominant note was of sibilation.

Suddenly, like the hiss of ten thousand times ten thousand snakes, a rushing sibilation passed through the momentarily darkened air.

A dolorous whistle chimed harmonies, and with regular sibilation came to time, quavering out the chromatic moments of this nasal hour.

In place of martial airs and musical utterance, there rose upon the ear a strange din of harsh gutturals and singular sibilation.

Challenger walked across to the oxygen tube, and the sound of the loud hissing fell away till it was the most gentle sibilation.

The sibilations of that whistle were prophetic of atmospheric disturbance to come.

Here then we are not much impressed with the opposition of physicists and astronomers, fearing, a little mournfully, that their language is of expiring sibilations.

The sibilation produced by the sap, which exudes copiously therefrom, is not conducive to composition.

Their fall was a soft sibilation, a long-drawn sigh.