hissing

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De Angelis and Waltz are also a hoot together, she as a heaving, hissing vampire bride who can’t stop licking her chops, he as a bone-dry vampire hunter dedicated to his investigation.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

A slow, steady hissing noise comes from the table, similar to air leaking from a tire.

From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2025

Only four days after their much-anticipated release into the big pond, the two beavers turned wild, charging and hissing when their foster parents visited.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Back in 1981, Russia also reported sounds on Venus during the Soviet Venera 13 mission, which sounds like waves hissing on a beach.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2025

My ears rang with faint noises I couldn’t place—crackling and hissing, the groan of wood, indistinct voices that sounded like screaming but were so far away they might as well have been whispers.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros