sibilate
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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
"Tom," was the word whispered, "Steele" was the sibilated response.
From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
"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
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
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
Dozia sibilated, pointing to Judith who had actually turned over.
From Jane Allen, Junior by Edith Bancroft
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
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
The theatre was crowded in every part: expectation was on tiptoe: anticipation as to his person, voice, and manner, was announced by the sibilating "I guess" heard around, and "pretty considerable" agitation prevailed.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 268, August 11, 1827 by Various
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
