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)
When a lady walks through a college quadrangle and hears no sibilation, let her know sadly that first youth is past.
From Pipefuls by Morley, Christopher
Their fall was a soft sibilation, a long-drawn sigh.
From A Maid of the Silver Sea by Oxenham, John
The reptile hissed, accompanying the sibilation with a sharp “skirr” of its tail.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne
