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

"Answer me!" sibilated the stranger, his brows darkening beneath the wide brim of the hat, and a gleam of fire showing in his eyes.

From Frank Merriwell's Chums by Burt L. Standish

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

From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray

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

From Jane Allen, Junior by Edith Bancroft

He achieved what I take to be the supreme compliment of noisy hushings sibilated from the pit and gallery when the later curtains rose.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman

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

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

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

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

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