hiss
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Play Under The Rain or Breathe Again and you'll hear a telltale hiss running throughout the tracks.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
As Aggie explodes at this overreach, you can almost hear Nile’s inner voice exuberantly hiss, “Bingo.”
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2025
He imagined the hiss and pop of their burning logs gladdening “many a humble fireside.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
Insults hit her with a knife-like hiss of air; fresh schemes get her charging around to Hildur Guðnadóttir’s tumultuous, percussive score.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
They didn’t hiss, nor did they seem to notice that they had new spectators, but a chill erupted across Ekon’s arms anyway.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Until the most recent episode, though, Alice’s entire personality has been scowls and deprecating hisses.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026
As the helium hisses out, the volunteers flatten the plastic skin, tucking in Snoopy’s ears or SpongeBob’s nose to prepare for the final roll.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
The only sounds definitively recorded from adult female ostriches were hisses.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
“I have never experienced someone who gets cheated on and suddenly she becomes God,” hisses Kent in the Season 11 trailer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
A steady flow of oxygen hisses out as I twist the knob.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
When she poked her head outside to see what was going on, someone hissed at her to “get out of town.”
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
At the bank's annual general meeting that year, normally sedate elderly shareholders hissed and booed.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026
The couple was on call for a small but fast-growing rodent who hissed when annoyed and cried when lonely:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
The fat hissed in greeting, and within seconds the kitchen was filled with oregano’s scent.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2025
I hissed one dark night when I knew that my restless tossing must be keeping her awake.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
This step is what brought us here, to Ponysaurus, filling out the online notice to the tune of a hissing compressor that kept clean air moving through the brewing system.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
The group could hear the hissing of the wind and the creaking of the ropes running down from the mast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
People often describe it as ringing, buzzing, hissing, or whooshing in one or both ears.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
The cistern on my toilet has been constantly refilling and making a hissing noise, so I asked a plumbing company to send someone over.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
With a hissing sound the spectral thing opened wide its mouth.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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