Term Gallery logo

Significados de hissing em inglês

português
silvo
catalão
xiulada

A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)

silvo
Sinônimos
Examples for "hiss"
Examples for "hiss"
1
Something in the soft hiss of the words made the Ranger turn.
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
2
The manager was heard to hiss from the shelter of the wings:
Frank Merriwell's Races
3
A great hiss momentarily drowned out the thunder of the horses' hooves.
Stonewielder
4
The sound track picked up the crash and hiss of the breakers.
Greylorn
5
Snarg let him know it was a bad idea with a hiss.
Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain
1
That said; connections made today are likely to fizzle out into nothing!
The South African
2
But Travis had seen other such efforts fizzle out over the years.
Beginnings
3
But any momentum behind the deal appeared to fizzle quickly on Thursday.
Reuters
4
Days of protests seemed to fizzle out, but continued in some places.
Reuters
5
You can expect the deluges to fizzle out in the early evening.
The South African
1
Three tumbrils faring away with their dread loads over the hushing snow.
A Tale of Two Cities
2
Helena stepped forward and wrapped him in her skirt, hushing the cries.
Siege of heaven
3
He entered and found a young mother hushing her baby to rest.
The Blue Flower
4
The woman gave him a mild jab with her hand, hushing him.
The evolutionary void
5
As for hushing it up, I'm hushing it up myself, thank you.
The Belfry
1
The sibilation produced by the sap, which exudes copiously therefrom, is not conducive to composition.
Condensed Novels
2
Their fall was a soft sibilation, a long-drawn sigh.
A Maid of the Silver Sea
3
From far to the south drifted a fainter sibilation, like an echo of thirty-three's whistle.
The Best Short Stories of 1920, and the Yearbook of the American...
4
My lord prolonged the sibilation of his 'Yes,' in the way of absent- minded men.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 4
5
He was turning back when he fancied he heard the sibilation of a whispering in the room.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete
Uso de hissing em inglês
1
What is the matter with you?' said Gimli in a hissing whisper.
The two towers
2
On second thought, the hissing was coming from two places at once.
Seveneves
3
The people repeated and increased their hissing; the knights continued their clapping.
The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch / Being Parts of the "Lives" of Pl...
4
I did not answer, but she went on hissing questions at me.
The eyes of a king
5
The hatch closed, and I heard water hissing in the ballast tanks.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
6
The Livio leaves a tiny hissing sound in the background, however slight.
Wired
7
The constable took a step and the hissing of the shoe-runner sounded.
Man-Size
8
But the distraction caused her trance-spell to fail; her hissing snakes quieted.
Samurai
9
Their shots and ours merged in the hissing medley of a tempest.
My Year of the War / Including an Account of Experiences with th...
10
Sticks aflame and flying embers came in hissing showers on the water.
Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac
11
When Ralph pressed it, there was humming and hissing in the court.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance
12
The blades bent as he sent the boat hissing through the water.
On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles
13
Above the hissing of the fire I heard a voice and footsteps.
The Unspeakable Gentleman
14
They started up the hill and met the sleet of hissing death.
The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
15
They are angry and helpless as the log hissing to the saw.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 1
16
He checked himself on the first hissing breath of the foul epithet.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
Sobre este termo
Translations for hissing
português
silvo
Hissing ao longo do tempo
Hissing nas variantes da língua
Estados Unidos da América
Comum
Reino Unido
Comum
Irlanda
Comum