sibilance
noun
a hissing quality of sound, or the hissing sound itself.
Example Sentences
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It was the Pug now, a curious whispering sibilancy in his voice, due no doubt to the disfigurement of his lips.
From The White Moll by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
His lungs drank in the cold, balsam-scented air like a suction pump and expelled each breath with the sibilancy of steam escaping from a valve.
From The Courage of Marge O'Doone by Lester Ralph
