sibilate

Chuck Coggins, Sam Shelton, Louis Delucca: obviously, there was some connection between a sibilate s and a complete lack of interest in the State versus Carolina issue.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Dozia sibilated, pointing to Judith who had actually turned over.

From Jane Allen, Junior by Edith Bancroft

"Tom," was the word whispered, "Steele" was the sibilated response.

From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray

"Do you think it's worth while?" sibilated Miss Miranda in answer.

From Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

No papers were asked for either at the Customs' station, some hundred yards farther on; but the Carabineros looked upon me as a lunatic, and significantly sibilated.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea

For the question that sibilated in Grafton street cafes and at the tram change at Nelson pillar was: "Will Dublin Castle permit?"

From What's the Matter with Ireland? by Ruth Russell

And when I walk amid the foliage of these autumn days, it begins to quarrel with an excitable sibilating duck: “It’s rabbit season!”

From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2010

And there he sits, meditating over Carlyle’s crepitating fire and Rousseau’s writhing, sibilating flame.

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

A sibilating hiss, no louder than the noise made by steam escaping from a kettle-spout, sounded close beside my foot.

From Pledged to the Dead by Seabury Quinn

Mr. Sterne's final rapid winking remained buried in the deep darkness sibilating with his whispers.

From The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad

Its voice is a harsh, grating hiss; it makes the noise when alarmed or when disturbed by passing canoes, all the individuals sibilating as they fly heavily away from tree to tree.

From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates