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Even when it’s Snoop sibilantly spitting venom at Eazy-E, Jerry Heller or any other constellation of anonymous villains, it’s compulsively listenable.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2017

The silent central control room houses giant twin computers that send dozens of sleek, 80-m.p.h. silvery aluminum passenger trains slicking sibilantly into stations at intervals as close as 90 seconds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sinister shadows slithering sibilantly through the threadable mews of Chinatown always remind me of the Nick Carter stories I used to read with Butch Klutch in the haymow of his father's livery stable.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is no deep ritualistic satisfaction in hearing the Dionysus in '69 troupe sibilantly repeat, "May I take you to your seat, sir?" in a seatless theater.

From Time Magazine Archive

"What a ghastly place!" whispered Chris, and something seemed to catch the whisper and repeat it sibilantly a great many times as if learning it off by heart.

From The Rocks of Valpre by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)