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.
have been hissing
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present perfect progressiveof hiss.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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From Britain The evildoers in the Third Reich couldn't all have been hissing, predatory, nutsy Nazis; they needed the complicity, passive or active, of the "good Germans."
From Time Magazine Archive
From early morning on the women have been hissing and steaming, bubbling and boiling over.
From Yiddish Tales by Various
"You fools!" he cried, "see what you have been hissing," and held up a little pig whose ear he had been pinching to make him utter the squeals.
From Aesop's Fables by Aesop
