hiss

How To Use hiss In A Sentence

• Why be all miffy and hissy and in a bitch-slapping mood guys, about not being in the military when you can do the work you like in prisons and police forces? See, it's not all about the election today.
• Following the sound, Silk found himself among the sellers he sought Hobbled deer reared and plunged, their soft brown eyes wild with fright; a huge snake lifted its flat, malevolent head, hissing like a kettle on the stove; live salmon gasped and splashed in murky, glass-fronted tanks; pigs grunted, lambs baaed, chickens squawked, and milling goats eyed passersby with curiosity and sharp suspicion. Nightside The Long Sun
• the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience
• There is a faint hissing sound and a burning smell. Times, Sunday Times
• A slight aspirate preceding and modifying the sibilant, which is, however, the stronger of the two consonants; _e.g. hsing_ = _hissing_ without the first _i_, Myths and Legends of China
• Boos and hisses came from the crowds at the sight of No Name's cowardliness.
• The inn we occupied had one of these porches: Madame Barbot, our landlady, and her maid, were both dressed in Breton costume, with lace-trimmed embroidered caps and aprons of fine muslin, clear-starched and ironed with a perfection which the most accomplished "blanchisseuse du fin" of Paris would find it difficult to surpass. Brittany & Its Byways
• There was the hiss of pressurization, then the clang of a hammer against metal Brunner's signal that they were ready. CORMORANT
• Psst! Come over here!" one youth hissed furtively.
• ‘Shut up,’ he hissed glancing into the kitchen where mom was on the phone.