sibilation

Example Sentences

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Something about the patience in her phrasing and the delicacy of her sibilation always turns the clock into vapor.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023

The pattering becomes a rushing in the tree-tops, a wild sibilation as of serpents in the fire, and a steady rattling and whizzing in the swamps.

From The Drummer Boy by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)

A dolorous whistle chimed harmonies, and with regular sibilation came to time, quavering out the chromatic moments of this nasal hour.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various

The South-American Spaniards, so largely recruited from Andalusia, maintain the same sibilation, which is about as offensive to a true Castilian as the dropping of an H is to an educated Englishman.

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry

They make it clear and penetrating; yet it seems a poor, effeminate sibilation, and no generous, open-mouthed call.

From To Cuba and Back by Dana, Richard Henry