Sample Sentences forsibilant (auto-selected)
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She had a curious habit of prefacing everything she said with a soft sibilant sound. (source)sibilant = hissing
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She on his tide, let her body be summoned by every sibilant hiss of his pain. (source)sibilant = characterized by a hissing sound
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Anne was sitting at her open window, for the time forgetful of the woes of examinations and the cares of the world, as she drank in the beauty of the summer dusk, sweet-scented with flower breaths from the garden below and sibilant and rustling from the stir of poplars. (source)sibilant = hissing
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The camp was desolate at this hour, but there were birds out and about, a great many birds, flying or perched upon the pavilions and the perimeter fence, and Nadia and Saeed looked at these birds who had lost or would soon lose their trees to construction, and Saeed sometimes called out to them with a faint, sibilant, unpuckered whistle, like a balloon slowly deflating.† (source)
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A terrible, shameful image comes to me: Kamal with his delicate hands, his reassuring manner, his sibilant speech, contrasted with Scott, huge and powerful, wild, desperate.† (source)
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Plump, translucent lizards lived behind old pictures, and waxy, crumbling ancestors with tough toe-nails and breath that smelled of yellow maps gossiped in sibilant, papery whispers.† (source)
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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?† (source)
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A sound—the sibilance of dragging feet on stone.† (source)
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Rendezvous, it says, terraces; the sibilants run up my spine, a shiver as if in fever.† (source)
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All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative.† (source)
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I heard the breathing of fifty men like muted sibilance of surf, broken only by necessary orders in the fewest possible words.† (source)
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He had long fair hair combed back without a parting and a face that was unnaturally lined for a man of his obvious youth; one of his front teeth was missing, so that his sibilants came sometimes with a lisp, sometimes with a disconcerting whistle, which he covered with a giggle; the teeth he had were stained with tobacco and set far apart.† (source)
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The last part of his speech was lost in a faint sibilant buzz that went through the gathering, an angry beelike buzz.† (source)
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The brief, intermittent sibilance of a machine-saw came from a near-by workshop.† (source)
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Sibilants echo wetly off Grade's teeth.† (source)
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The sibilant s, followed by a flat vowel and hard consonants.† (source)
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