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Meanings of sibilation in English
Spanish
asibilación 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
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.
Usage of sibilation in English
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.
6
The world was still, except for the sibilation of the whispering heads bunched together over the table.
7
A small wyvern perched on a ledge returned the familiar's angry sibilation and stretched its wings in challenge.
8
Her voice was peculiar, very low and sweet, and so soft that the dominant note was of sibilation.
9
Suddenly, like the hiss of ten thousand times ten thousand snakes, a rushing sibilation passed through the momentarily darkened air.
10
A dolorous whistle chimed harmonies, and with regular sibilation came to time, quavering out the chromatic moments of this nasal hour.
11
In place of martial airs and musical utterance, there rose upon the ear a strange din of harsh gutturals and singular sibilation.
12
Challenger walked across to the oxygen tube, and the sound of the loud hissing fell away till it was the most gentle sibilation.
13
The sibilations of that whistle were prophetic of atmospheric disturbance to come.
14
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.
15
The sibilation produced by the sap, which exudes copiously therefrom, is not conducive to composition.
16
Their fall was a soft sibilation, a long-drawn sigh.
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