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the sibilant whisper of a summer's breeze (source)
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a sibilant seductive whisper
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she uttered a shshshsh so sibilant and ominous, that it frightened the poor old lady in her bed (source)
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the slithery, sibilant language of snakes (source)
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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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A shrivelled whispering, winter vines rustling, the sibilance of autumn wind in dry grass.† (source)
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Hekate spoke in a deep, almost masculine voice, touched with an accent that had all the hissing sibilants of Greece and the liquid consonants of Persia.† (source)
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Around it went among them, their voices faint and sibilant through the floorboards.† (source)
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A sound—the sibilance of dragging feet on stone.† (source)
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Sibilants echo wetly off Grade's teeth.† (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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Orr snickered with a slight, mucid sibilance and turned back to his work, squatting.† (source)
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I also got used to hearing short bursts of foreign languages as the dial hand swept round from BBC to Radio Eireann, from the intonations of London to those of Dublin, and even though I did not understand what was being said in those first encounters with the gutturals and sibilants of European speech, I had already begun a journey into the wideness of the world beyond.† (source)
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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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