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View definitions for hissing

hissing

adjective as in whistling

Strong matches

noun as in whirring

Strong matches

noun as in white noise

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Example Sentences

Forty-five years after “Alien” launched horror into space, little hasn’t been analyzed about its hissing xenomorphs, face-huggers or the lingering untrustworthiness of “synthetic persons.”

From Salon

An audience member who was at the performance of Antony and Cleopatra told the BBC he heard "hissing from above", before seeing "an object fall through the roof - and into the crowd".

From BBC

Amid the din of traffic, hissing buses and loud stereos, the playground sat empty, and men lay on the grassy strips, napping under the sun.

A strange hissing noise echoes from the canyon.

I left my phone in the Forbidden Basket and followed the sound of hissing to the Speaking Stump.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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