hiss
verb (used without object)
to make or emit a sharp sound like that of the letter s prolonged, as a snake does, or as steam does when forced under pressure through a small opening.
are hissing
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present progressiveof hiss.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Celia pounds her hammer on the card table to quiet the spectators, who are hissing and hollering as if it were a boxing match.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
On the ground are other serpents, On the path are snakes and adders, And above, their tongues are hissing, And below, their tails are waving.
From Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two by Elias Lönnrot
Low theatres, low music-halls, casinos, haunts of yet viler sorts—there the snakes are, hissing and writhing and ready to bite.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren
“The abode of the infernal dragons,” replied the angel, “who are hissing and snarling, rushing and preying upon one another every minute.”
From The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell by George Henry Borrow
Hark! now the fires are hissing, now, by dint of bellows and forge, that head, the people's idol, is aglow; and the great Sejanus is a crackling!
From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Frank Justus Miller
