hiss
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Not a call of the wild, a roar or a hiss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Considering the jumped-up summer performance tires, road and tire hiss at speed were minimal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Dodgers fans generally hiss at the mention of Frank McCourt — the former owner took the team into bankruptcy, after all — but today is about tipping our cap to him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
Play Under The Rain or Breathe Again and you'll hear a telltale hiss running throughout the tracks.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
The sound of its footsteps faded to a hiss of settling snow ...
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
As the helium hisses out, the volunteers flatten the plastic skin, tucking in Snoopy’s ears or SpongeBob’s nose to prepare for the final roll.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
In North Africa and the Levant, it’s shakshuka: eggs poached in a rich, spiced tomato sauce that hisses when it hits the pan and settles into something molten and slow.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2025
The only sounds definitively recorded from adult female ostriches were hisses.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
Looking for a muse, the 26-year-old found one in the clangs, hisses and whistles of a train trip to Boston.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
He followed how the boy clicked his tongue like a snare, and timed his crisp hisses like sticks on brass hi-hats.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
The source of the stench was the canal itself, a stretch of sewage, chemicals and other unmentionables in “green water that hissed and bubbled like a witch’s cauldron.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
At the bank's annual general meeting that year, normally sedate elderly shareholders hissed and booed.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026
“It’s called negotiations,” Trump hissed at a reporter who asked him about it Wednesday.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
When she first got there early this week, she tried to run away and hissed any time someone tried to touch her, Ortiz said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
“I know they’re under fire,” I hissed back, trying to snatch away my headpiece.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
I caught the film at a recent matinee in New Orleans, and children and adults alike gasped at Harryhausen’s movie monsters – from the looming metal colossus of Telos to the hissing and slithering Hydra.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
People often describe it as ringing, buzzing, hissing, or whooshing in one or both ears.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
The cistern on my toilet has been constantly refilling and making a hissing noise, so I asked a plumbing company to send someone over.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
They found Madagascar "hissing" cockroaches, a bulky insect named for its noisy defence mechanism, and dubia cockroaches, an invasive critter bred as a snack for pet lizards.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
We meet the new science teacher, who has a lab with frogs and giant hissing cockroaches.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
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