hissing

Example Sentences

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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

Yet that allegiance puts it uncomfortably close to hissing, “Look what you made me do.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

Those voters are the equivalent of Robin Williams imitating a six-year-old sticking their tongue out and hissing, “I know you are but what am I?”

From Salon • May 29, 2025

The trader’s assistant brought out the hissing lamps and hung them over the porch.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer