A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)
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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 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 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.
6 But the hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing.
7 I can hear the audience hushing one another, not wanting to miss anything.
8 The awful news spread from lip to lip, hushing shouts and quelling laughter.
9 A soft hushing sound, like fingernails scratching down an endless sheet of paper.
10 Comforted wondrously by the hushing finger, Hugh would yet understand more.
11 She stood hushing Cinders as if he had been an infant.
12 There were a great many false alarms, sudden outcries, hushing again rather slowly.
13 Ben brought his finger up quickly and made a hushing sound.
14 He saw Gareth opening his mouth to speak and his wife hushing him.
15 But at last she spoke, putting a hushing hand on Eric's dreamful head.
16 I touched my finger to my lips in a hushing gesture.
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