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 reptile hissed, accompanying the sibilation with a sharp “skirr” of its tail.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
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 J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
"Ah, it isn't quite like a gentleman's stealing a few spoons," old Corey began, in the gentle way he had, and with a certain involuntary sibilation through the gaps between his front teeth.
From The Quality of Mercy by William Dean Howells
Their fall was a soft sibilation, a long-drawn sigh.
From A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham
