sibilate
verb (used without object)
to hiss.
sibilation
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a word derived from
sibilate.
Example Sentences
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Something about the patience in her phrasing and the delicacy of her sibilation always turns the clock into vapor.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023
My lord prolonged the sibilation of his 'Yes,' in the way of absent- minded men.
From Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 4 by George Meredith
The South-American Spaniards, so largely recruited from Andalusia, maintain the same sibilation, which is about as offensive to a true Castilian as the dropping of an H is to an educated Englishman.
From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
As Dr. Johnson would have said: Sir, there was a habit of sibilation in the house.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various
The pattering becomes a rushing in the tree-tops, a wild sibilation as of serpents in the fire, and a steady rattling and whizzing in the swamps.
From The Drummer Boy by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
