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
"We are having a big night, sir," he said, with the peculiar sibilation of his kind and with his broad, flat hands clasped together.
From The Sins of the Children A Novel by Hamilton, Cosmo
As Dr. Johnson would have said: Sir, there was a habit of sibilation in the house.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various
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)
When a bird called one started involuntarily, for the air was so muffled and heavy that it was strange to find it open instantly to let free the delicate sibilation.
From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)
