sibilation

Example Sentences

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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

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 Bates, Henry Walter

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

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

From The End of the Tether by Conrad, Joseph

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 Quinn, Seabury