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 hissed
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present perfectof hiss.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Would I have hissed and snapped at arrogant German officers harassing shopkeepers and pedestrians in show-me-your-papers encounters, or would I have swiftly walked by?
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2016
Bill Belichick didn’t speak; if he did, he might have hissed at the news media like a Madagascar cockroach.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2011
But none the less the Union miners have hissed the non-Union men, barked at them, shouted "Scabs!"
From Time Magazine Archive
You have hissed the tragedy of Cataline; when you shall see Phaedrus played, you will probably agree that the part of Phaedrus, in Racine, is infinitely superior to the model you have known in Euripides.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 566, September 15, 1832 by Various
"Why," said she after all was over, "at home they would have hissed me, had that happened there."
From Stage Confidences by Clara Morris
