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Definition

characterized by a hissing sound — as made when pronouncing the letter "s"

More rarely, sibilant can reference the hissing sound; or a consonant (such as "s") that has a hissing sound.

the sibilant whisper of a summer's breeze
Eric Van Lustbader -- Beneath an Opal Moon

a sibilant seductive whisper
she uttered a shshshsh so sibilant and ominous, that it frightened the poor old lady in her bed
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
the slithery, sibilant language of snakes
A. O. Scott -- The New York Times, 2/15/02 (film review of: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
She had a curious habit of prefacing everything she said with a soft sibilant sound.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

sibilant = hissing

She on his tide, let her body be summoned by every sibilant hiss of his pain.
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes

sibilant = characterized by a hissing sound

Sibilants echo wetly off Grade's teeth.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Sometimes this gurgle became sibilant, almost a whistle.
Jack London -- White Fang
She made a sibilant sound, almost inaudible, and right there on Constitution Avenue, moved toward me in a rush and pressed herself into my arms.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
A sound—the sibilance of dragging feet on stone.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
I heard the breathing of fifty men like muted sibilance of surf, broken only by necessary orders in the fewest possible words.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
It had a slight sibilant sound.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
She hadn't been able to understand Artkin's words, but the sibilant whispers left no doubt in her mind about what Artkin was saying.
Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
He tapped his scepter on his knee, his voice soft and sibilant.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
The last part of his speech was lost in a faint sibilant buzz that went through the gathering, an angry beelike buzz.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
As he stooped to snatch it up he uttered a sibilant hiss.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
"Renault .... zero," Brother Leon said, his voice a sibilant whisper.
Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War
Rendezvous, it says, terraces; the sibilants run up my spine, a shiver as if in fever.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
In the silence Harry imagined he could hear the snake hissing slightly as it coiled and uncoiled-or was it Voldemort's sibilant sigh lingering on the air?
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
In the hush, a sibilant sound attended the finish photo as it slid down to the stewards.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit

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