Hissing

Usage examples of sibilant.

Sol Draconi Septem and hear the sibilant hissings and see the deadly actions of Scylla, Gyges, Briareus, and Nemes on Vitus-Gray-Balianus B.

Kisst-Haa bowed to her, boomed briefly in his own sibilant tongue, bowed to Van Duyn and set off again on his nameless errand.

The wheezing, eerily sibilant emissions of the flimmers did much to inspire his efforts.

The Shadow was speaking to Goofer in sibilant tones that the captured crook could not ignore.

The gasp of Pocky Bender was muffled by a burst of sibilant laughter from The Shadow.

A sibilant snarl reverberated through the room and he whirled full circle.

Lights shone in the windows, music was in the air, and as I drew nearer my ear detected the sibilant shuffling of the feet of butlers, footmen, chauffeurs, parlourmaids, housemaids, tweenies and, I have no doubt, cooks, who were busily treading the measure.

Behind the bars, one of the gnarly miscreations hissed at me, and the other two took it up at once and with enthusiasms low, sibilant, threatening sound.

Everyone seemed to have heard that Ramillies was missing again, and the long sibilant name sounded from all sides.

Sibilant weavers from the lakes of Banaree, where in springtime it was always milky morning, preferred calm and sparsity and empty spaces.

The softly spoken Absarokee woke Blaze, but she lay drowsily quiescent, letting the sibilant cadence wash over her.

Here was a scrap of Latin or a Cymric phrase, but mostly it was merely a sibilant hissing which belonged to no language of our ken.

The hisser had hissed his name, a sibilant whisper that made the name Dortmunder sound as though it were full of esses.

Everyone seemed to have heard that Ramillies was missing again, and the long sibilant name sounded from all sides.

He could see rets standing all about him, maybe a dozen or so, heavy reptilian bodies cloaked against the dawn light, heads bent between heavy shoulders, voices low and sibilant as they conversed among themselves.