sibilation

Example Sentences

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The sibilations of that whistle were prophetic of atmospheric disturbance to come.

From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Housman, Laurence

Here then we are not much impressed with the opposition of physicists and astronomers, fearing, a little mournfully, that their language is of expiring sibilations.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

Cornelia always frowned, and drew her breath in long sibilations, when she was trying hard to get a thing right.

From The Coast of Bohemia by Howells, William Dean

"Sit here, you terrors, while I get the cloth on the dining-room table," and out she went, her laughter dying in sibilations along the diminutive corridor.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton