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
Bob whistled,—a long sibilation of amazement,—and then laughed and laughed again.
From A Tar-Heel Baron by Edward Stratton Holloway
The South-American Spaniards, so largely recruited from Andalusia, maintain the same sibilation, which is about as offensive to a true Castilian as the dropping of an H is to an educated Englishman.
From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
"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 Cosmo Hamilton
A dolorous whistle chimed harmonies, and with regular sibilation came to time, quavering out the chromatic moments of this nasal hour.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
