How To Use Hissing In A Sentence

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
Frothy geysers and hissing fumaroles vent into icy air, huge herds of elk and bison gather in low basins for food and warmth, the forest glitters with ice, and a blanket of snow brings a rare silence.

I could almost hear the radio audience hissing. Times, Sunday Times
We can't have feral cats hissing at MPs. Times, Sunday Times
Its hissing and spitting natural geyser is located seven kilometers southeast of the former Jalisco hacienda of El Carmen. Trees, shadows, steam and the rays of the early morning sun combine to cast an eerie spell over the hot river of Los Hervores. Its hissing and spitting natural geyser is located seven kilometers southeast of the former Jalisco hacienda of El Carmen. © Joh
An audible hissing pop accompanied the loosening of the last bolt, and at the sight of my leprous fore-arms and the great plates of scabrous horn which have overgrown my chest, the roust-abouts screamed like a pair of God-damned fat ladies.
The resident cats of the time didn't much like the hissing and spluttering and clattering the device made as it brewed a new jugful, but they came round in the end.
Around the circular pit were crowded all the races of Garden, or rather, all those races which had not been exterminated resisting the evil Wizards: the hooded Druids, brachiate tree dwellers from the Great Forest, a band of fuzzies in their bright orange robes, many lizard soldiers hissing and laughing and shouting, stubby little Marsh Folk, and hundreds of mutants. Prayers To Broken Stones
A sharp twinge of pain caused him to take in a hissing breath in an effort to resist temptation of crying out as she found the spot.
A cold southerly wind rustled through the coolabah trees with a sweet hissing sound as a corella squawked into a colourless sky. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
‘Should've eaten breakfast,’ she said hissing through her overactive nostrils.
Their father is still feeding them, and they make a curious hissing noise when he arrives. Times, Sunday Times
Orders were passed on the other side of the hall, the hissing language of the serpent priests impossible to understand. RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
I read the first 50 pages of each one hoping to drown out the hissing from the O² machine. Hat trick
He was hissing now, scowling with a hatred and anger at them both.
The breeze whispered along the castle walls and for a moment he thought he heard his name hissing softly in the night wind. Last Sword Of Power
The coachwhip is a nervous snake and may retreat into rocks or rodent burrows when threatened, but it is just as likely to approach an intruder hissing, striking, and possibly shaking its tail; it will bite if handled.
The sound of the water hissing in the Devil's Throat was overwhelming.
Frothy geysers and hissing fumaroles vent into icy air, huge herds of elk and bison gather in low basins for food and warmth, the forest glitters with ice, and a blanket of snow brings a rare silence.
The bare platform and hissing steam are no more. Times, Sunday Times
‘Whatever, just get to the point’, he said hissing at her.
They darted in between boxes, yowling, hissing and scratching. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad
I could almost hear the radio audience hissing. Times, Sunday Times
There was steam hissing from a dozen little spouts and a thick green gas hid the floor.
The small probes were hissing and seemed to be emitting noxious gas. The Sun
The rest of his query was drowned out by the sound of hissing air and falling metal as the ship lurched, and at the same time, the door began to open.
It is this kind of surprising observation, this capacity for affection that makes her so novels so capacious: a divorce may be announced, but so is the hissing of a gas fire.
Hissing seconds pass, a lorry overtakes, effervescent bebop fills the car. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
Bartholomew had moved with the grace of a dancer, his sword a silver hissing snake.
Again, a long silence, the empty frequency hissing with background noise, probably precipitation static, he guessed. CORMORANT
I love hissing the villainess as she works her evil wiles and cheering when she gets her eventual comeuppance.
As soon as I was done, the cat started hissing and spitting and arched its back.
The palm trees were wilding outside, hissing and clapping. A DARKENING STAIN
Further allegations of anti-Catholicism from prominent figures including Cardinal Logue aroused sectarian feelings which led to jeering and hissing on 8 May.
Suddenly there was a loud hissing sound and thrashing of water from behind the reeds.
Stepanov sat, for a time, looking at the hissing butane gas lamp. KARA KUSH
Why his masculine whore, now the rotten diseases of the south, the guts griping ruptures: loades a gravell in the back, lethergies, could palsies, rawe eies, durtrotte [n] livers, whissing lungs, bladders full of impostume. The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)
The figure drew out a slender stiletto dagger before hissing, ‘I am Nightcat, the bringer of your death!’
A long, indrawn breath, hissingly let out in surprise.
Breeding adults may emit caws, sighs or hissing calls.
So traumatized by what he saw in China, and so ashamed of being a human, the man returns to his village thinking he is a snake, slithering on the ground, hissing at former friends and family.
These dishes include an imperial sizzling platter with chicken, seafood and noodles that comes to the table hissing on an ironware plate.
It sees storm clouds torn from their moorings and smashed against the ground with a minutely escalating, hissing swirl of arterial spray, then morphing into a jackhammer pulse.
His smoking tea went hissing over the " hot coppers " of that respectable veteran.
The French, caught unawares because they think the appalling Phil Coulter ditty is an intro to an ad for some sort of cross border version of a bawneen sweater, won't even start hissing, sneering or booing. Irish Blogs
To be surrounded by dozens of squawking, hissing sea birds with 10 ft wingspans was one thing, but add to that a pod of 600 acrobatic dusky dolphins and you had a wildlife spectacle to rival anything on earth.
Hissing and spitting like an angry cat, Arach tried to free herself, but the man was strong.
The thirty-staired Seats, all round our Amphitheatre, get instantaneously slated with mere umbrellas, fallacious when so thick set: our antique Cassolettes become Water-pots; their incense-smoke gone hissing, in a whiff of muddy vapour. The French Revolution
I was booing and hissing the bad guys with the best of them, and I usually hate audience participation.
Benedict drew a hissing breath, and pulled up his horses, his eyes never leaving hers.
The snow thickened as night fell, piling around their shelter and hissing at the fire.
An essential part of the mumming tradition was audience participation, with the crowd hissing the dragon and cheering St George to victory, and that's probably where we get our robust pantomime backchat these days.
Shouts and yells and crashes filled the air, ten times louder than in the hall, and it was difficult to see some places because of all the hissing steam, geysering up from spouts and funnels and pots.
When the hissing noise subsides, the bung is driven in firmly, and a little hole is made in the head of the cask, near the bung, which is stopped with a wooden peg. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
Another boat chugged past and at that moment our world exploded in hissing silvery blue, the sea whisking and shining in a turmoil of a bustle of fish and phosphorescence, like coins gleaming in a dark, still pool.
Sound quality is quite bad, with a mono track that has substantial hissing and popping, and a very muddy sound.
She began hissing and growling this horrible low grumble like something from a Stephen King novel.
Tinnitus is a condition where the sufferer hears intermittent or continuous ringing, hissing, whistling, roaring or buzzing noises in one or both ears.
Then in a fluid motion, she turns around hissing and throws me to the ground.
After a few more seconds of spitting and hissing, Fluffy ran from Katie's sight.
The flow from the tap stops - and there may be hissing or bubbling noises as well.
Hissing and smoking, the Conearith Shipyards hummed with construction.
It was believed that serpents, coiling together in a wriggling, writhing mass, generated these glass or paste beads from their slaver and shot them into the air from their hissing jaws.
Before she could do a thing, Balac had sped in front of her, hissing and spitting at the Dragon.
No quarter is given and there's lots of booing and hissing from the audience who've come to see a circus as much as a dance competition. Times, Sunday Times
If he were a cat, he'd be hissing and spitting by now, hair on end.
There's a dog growling, a cat hissing, a fox snarling, a wolf with flattened ears, and a winged creature extending its claws.
Partly it is the vividness of it - the great, gleaming engines with their clanking levers and hissing gouts of steam, and the almost vaudevillian cast of characters.
They kept traveling the country trying to sell it and people kept booing and hissing them down.
The iron was hissing and spluttering.
The wind was swirling up leaf litter and the dusty snow together and they made a dry hissing sound.
In chapter three, the Kid Ninjagoes to a pet store and gets a group of extraordinary pets – a dog that took karate, a cat that was expert in swordplay, a frog scientist, and a hissing cockroach that is also a ninja. Kid Ninja «
Through the shallow wavelets he ran, stepping high and delicately splashing merry drops against the morning sunlight, leaped over one or two that would have "tilled" him to the knee (to use an old boyish phrase learnt at Carwithiel where he had learnt to swim), and came to the shelf beyond which the first tall comber boomed towards him, more than head high, hissing along its ridge. Lady Good-for-Nothing
Git away wid ye, spalpeen!" cries he, and stood waving as the train pulled out, a little black figure vanishing into the hissing steam. THE NUMBERS
A hissing noise of escaping gas from the ruptured mains suddenly thumped into flame and burst across the street, pushing the firemen back. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Besides, if folks want to have at him, they shouldn't have to enter his squalid den and endure the inevitable spitting and hissing from the corners. Archive 2009-05-01
Hissing seconds pass, a lorry overtakes, effervescent bebop fills the car. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
But I've become used to the floaters, as well as that low-volume, high-pitched hissing sound that I began to notice a year ago in the background of music from my stereo.
Your face would be glowing, and the noises of hissing and steam escaping. Times, Sunday Times
And all those passing bandwagons, wheels spinning and drivers hissing, have given William something to hop on.
Clarice shrieked as a small crimson blur streaked towards her, hissing and spitting.
The small probes were hissing and seemed to be emitting noxious gas. The Sun
The singe mark, that had started to grow in, was sizzling and hissing again.
In speaking of articulate sounds they may be conveniently divided first into clear continued sounds, expressed by the letters called vowels; secondly, Into hissing sounds, expressed by the letters called sibilants; thirdly, Into semivocal sounds, which consist of a mixture of the two former; and, lastly, Into interrupted sounds, represented by the letters properly termed consonants. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
The resident cats of the time didn't much like the hissing and spluttering and clattering the device made as it brewed a new jugful, but they came round in the end.
Immediately, she started hissing at the being standing close to me.
One by one, each was filled by a sphere of rose-gold light, crackling and hissing as arcs of sorcerial lightning arced across them and linked all six in a network of coruscant flame.
He made no sound save a slight hissing intake of breath.
From the seam where the seat cushion met the back, particles were hissing into the car like black smoke. PREY
A hissing noise of escaping gas from the ruptured mains suddenly thumped into flame and burst across the street, pushing the firemen back. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Before enlisting he had been the chief of a gang of claqueurs, whose business it was to lead the applause, or it might be, the hissing at the theatres of Rome.
I poked my head back into the sickbay, hissing for Keejana's attention.
S: The nineteenth letter of the alphabet, which is called a sibilant, because it makes a hissing sound like a goose. The Silly Syclopedia
Seigi barely had time to bleakly wonder how close he had come to death before the bowman was slamming into him from behind, hissing ‘Go, go, go!’
An arachnologist says most spiders stridulate too quietly for humans to hear; an exception is Australia's barking spider, a kind of tarantula that lets out a hissing sound when threatened.
Hissing drones and cymbal crashes sweep away any memory of the former's dulcet overtones.
He pulls me through the crowd, much as I try to fight back, hissing insults and cussing at him like a sailor.
From the seam where the seat cushion met the back, particles were hissing into the car like black smoke. PREY
A hot spring bubbling and hissing at your feet is surrounded by brilliant orange and livid purple stains. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
Brown and striped cat shapes sinuously intermingled, hissing and yowling, and fell off the bed with three soft thuds. AN OLDER WOMAN
They were barreling along much like monkeys, swinging their legs forward then their arms, hissing and screeching the entire time.
The meeting featured loud hooting, hissing and booing from the supporters of the various positions.
It meant twice the usual number of inside telephone calls anent rooms too hot, rooms too cold, radiators hammering, radiators hissing, windows that refused to open, windows that refused to shut, packages undelivered, hot water not forthcoming. Cheerful—By Request
No quarter is given and there's lots of booing and hissing from the audience who've come to see a circus as much as a dance competition. Times, Sunday Times
The bare platform and hissing steam are no more. Times, Sunday Times
The boys attacked them with stones, and the reptiles quickly disentwined them - selves, and made battle for some time, by hissing at their assailants; one, more bold than the rest, advanced towards one of the boys, who fortunately killed it with a stone; it measured above four feet in length, and had several frogs in its belly. Omniana, or Horae otiosiores
The Brawlers scowled viciously at the stationary pair as they sped forward, their serpents lashing their tails and hissing.
From my window, I could see a raw streak of red hissing its way against the moonless night.
He looked around nervously and grabbed her arm, hissing lowly.
Bartholomew had moved with the grace of a dancer, his sword a silver hissing snake.
The thin leafless trees were all bending away from the shore, and the wind went sighing, hissing, and almost wailing through their bare boughs and budless twigs. The Marquis of Lossie
That horrid smell, that horrid noise; the hissing of the wheels grinding over the asphalt road, that drilling noise.
My long-haired cat abruptly jumps into my lap, rubs his fluffy white fur all over my black outfit, knocks my coffee onto the keyboard, and then bounds away, startled and hissing, for no good reason.
Frank threw the iron shoe hissing into cold water and strengthened his back.
The hair at the back of her head rose to its ends as she heard the noises of the cicadas, hoots of owls and soft hissing as she ambled along.
Apart from the occasional hissing jet of steam rising up into the morning air and smoke and flame from several burning vehicles, the world was completely still.
I'd heard fieldfares in a tall hedge making that strange conspiratorial hissing call to each other and, as their arrival from the north is such a signature event for autumn proper, I thought I'd wander over and pay my respects. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
Your face would be glowing, and the noises of hissing and steam escaping. Times, Sunday Times
We awake to hissing, bruise-coloured curtains of rain sheeting over the decks, the sky blacker than a preacher's gown.
The steam escaped with a loud hissing noise.
Dialogue sounds perfectly crisp, with no muffled words or hissing.
There is a faint hissing sound and a burning smell. Times, Sunday Times
The scent and hissing of pine needles make him believe he's in a hospital where nurses pass by him.
The cat stayed there all afternoon, walking around the thorny mass which held the snake, spitting at it, hissing at it, miaowing. ON CATS
They made their way back to the door, the fire hissing and sputtering all around them.
As the faceplate closed partway and he began hissing in my face I am quite sure my screaming changed tone and intensity.
Frank threw the shoe hissing into cold water and strengthened his back.
The departure bell chimed as the gondola approached, and the doors opened with a hissing outrush of air once the gondola was safely docked. The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
Thou must leap into the abyss of dreadful caves and caverns, replete with poisonous toads and hissing serpents; thou must plunge into seas of burning sulphur; thou must launch upon the ocean in a crazy bark, when the foaming billows roll mountains high — when the lightning flashes, the thunder roars, and the howling tempest blows, as if it would commix the jarring elements of air and water, earth and fire, and reduce all nature to the original anarchy of chaos. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
The Rentaio was hissing and spitting, trying to tear the collar off himself and scratching his throat, drawing thin lines of blood.
The foundation gets a bit of a smackdown, too, for inviting Tyler to speak at an event, and then hissing when they didn't get the irony in a joke.
Already the hissing had quieted, and the hanging veils of blackened smoke and steam had begun to disperse.
The cavalcade was a weird and picturesque sight, the riders with their many-colored dresses, their matchlocks with red flags, their jewelled swords, their banners with long ribbons of all colors flying in the wind -- all galloping furiously, shouting, yelling, and hissing, amid a deafening din of thousands of horse-bells. An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet
After about a minute, a single car stopped in front of them, its door hissing open with pneumatic sibilance.
Trying that approach on Monday morning resulted in pretty blue, orange and white sparks and threatening hissing and spitting noises.
A hissing sound escaped the creature as burning heat lanced his palms.
There was a loud hissing noise and a cloud of bright green smoke billowed towards them.
They slept, zipped in nets, amid hissing insects and the slither of snakes below. Times, Sunday Times
Caporelli made a small hissing sound of irritation.
We lay there in the sudden quiet, listening to a hissing noise. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
A leaky valve they say, indicated by a repetitive loud hissing from the main gasket. frennzy said ... Calgon, Take Me Away
They will also growl and make hissing noises to signal that they are about to defend themselves. Times, Sunday Times
Christalive -- Joe says, hissingly -- Why is she trying to smuggle a couple of East German skinheads... under her tee shirt? THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
The cavalcade was a weird and picturesque sight, the riders with their many-coloured dresses, their matchlocks with red flags, their jewelled swords, their banners with long ribbons of all colours flying in the wind; all galloping furiously, shouting, yelling and hissing, amidst a deafening din of thousands of horse-bells. In the Forbidden Land
He touched the stun which I shew He touched the _stone_ which I him, an di guess it made him sithe, _showed_ him and it made him for twas cissing hot. _sigh_, for _it was hissing_ hot. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
On top of hissing electronic flutters, one reedist begins by expelling delicate breaths until they gather into chalumeau register tones, while the other quacks and flutter tongues.
Umbrellas may be 'hedged about' by cobweb statutes; I will not swear it is not so; there may exist laws that make such things property; but sure I am that the hissing contempt, the loud-mouthed indignation of all civilised society, 'would sibilate and roar at the bloodless poltroon who should engage law on his side to obtain for him the restitution of a-- lent Umbrella! Umbrellas and Their History
I fancied I heard a hissing, as pipes bore the increasing pressure of the ship's various hydraulic systems. ANTI-ICE
To be surrounded by dozens of squawking, hissing sea birds with 10 ft wingspans was one thing, but add to that a pod of 600 acrobatic dusky dolphins and you had a wildlife spectacle to rival anything on earth.
Bartholomew had moved with the grace of a dancer, his sword a silver hissing snake.
A red glow and loud hissing sounds fill the night air. Incredible!
They will also growl and make hissing noises to signal that they are about to defend themselves. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of purring and snuggling up to us, he was aggressive, hissing and spitting in spite of our best efforts to help him.
From the seam where the seat cushion met the back, particles were hissing into the car like black smoke. PREY
She was assured that the speakers should not be hissing in surround sound.
There was a hissing sound, and clouds of vapour were emitted.
After about a minute, a single car stopped in front of them, its door hissing open with pneumatic sibilance.
There came such a loud hissing from the engine that people looked dazed as they scurried to and fro. The Garden Party, and Other Stories
The actors flurry about backstage, hissing, thumping and gesticulating wildly between cues.
His specific war was World War I, but his poems, though containing references to the "Boche," trenches, the Western Front, the hissing of gas shells and other words and phrases identifiable with the 1914-1918 war — his "subject," he said, "is War, and the pity of War. “I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....”
There was a large serpent coiled about in an offensive manner and hissing ominously.
She was still leaning on her elbow, looking around her with a rather discontented face, when some door being opened down stairs, a great noise of hissing and sputtering came to her ears, and presently after there stole to her nostrils a steaming odour of something very savoury from the kitchen. The Wide, Wide World
Rarely do I descend to that cauldron of hissing pipes and clangor of which so few are aware — am I blessed or cursed to have discovered it within? The Indolent Magician (II)
We are hissing and fussing at the faintest lilt of an accent.
They have described hearing a hissing noise like a giant pressure cooker letting off steam, seconds before a huge blast which blew one man 8ft into a locker.
Apart from the hissing of the pressure lamp, there was no sound inside the hut other than the metallic drumfire of the ice spicules against the icesheathed eastern wall of the hut. Ice Station Zebra
They suck their lips in with a sharp hissing breath; then push them out suddenly, ready for the osculatory seance, the lips moving as if they were pushed from the inside by a pole. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
He represents a party which has been nothing but obstructionist," sputtered Valeriani, amid much booing and hissing from the audience. HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 22ND, 2010
I looked over to the mother to see that she was hissing at me.
a faint hissing sound
The scent and hissing of pine needles make him believe he's in a hospital where nurses pass by him.
It was the sound of dry, windblown leaves and loose paper hissing across concrete streets and sidewalks.
As the loud hissing of pressurised water surrounded the air, a host of bikies surrounded the truck checking each bike's set up and drooling over every aspect.
For many minutes he sat in the quietly hissing cubicle, studying his hands upon his knees. THE SCAR
The steam escaped with a loud hissing noise.
Across on the opposite platform from the stationmaster 's office the London train came hissing to a standstill. THE WHITE DOVE
In both the older and newer segments, the mix has some type of background noise, from crackling to hissing to buzzing to high-pitched whines.
There was steam hissing from a dozen little spouts and a thick green gas hid the floor.
Plasma bolts smacked into the table, dropping hissing beads of steel onto the floor.
Kobi was practically hissing at this point, his tail lashing furiously behind him.
It positively thunders from the speakers, rising to a towering, epic crescendo of hissing guitar and soaring choruses.
And here is Synge again, in another temper, which came to him on the seas about Inishmaan: "The black curagh working slowly through this world of gray, and the soft hissing of the rain, gave me one of the moods in which we realize with immense distress the short moment we have left us to experience all the wonder and beauty of the world. Irish Plays and Playwrights
Noor, in typical logical mode, made a soft hissing noise with her teeth, the signal for any motion to halt gradually but fast.
But Rose was serious, hissing in her ear to behave properly, just concentrate.
Language is employed as a formative element of the rhythm and music, but all a garble of German phrases, English sentence fragments, hissing, and hiccuping.
She began hissing and growling this horrible low grumble like something from a Stephen King novel.
You could have steam erratically hissing from its base, like a rocket about to take off. Times, Sunday Times
In speaking of articulate sounds they may be conveniently divided first into clear continued sounds, expressed by the letters called vowels; secondly, into hissing sounds, expressed by the letters, called sibilants; thirdly, into semivocal sounds, which consist of a mixture of the two former; and, lastly, into interrupted sounds, represented by the letters properly termed consonants. Note XV
For those cursed with dialup, you probably know what the modem handshake sounds like, with the hissing and screaming before it is connected.
The blaze did nothing but feed on the building, hissing and spitting on wood and brick.
The plucky pastor finally found the courage to tackle the hissing intruder.
We can't have feral cats hissing at MPs. Times, Sunday Times
It stated more that asked in a hissing, metallic voice.
Business class is 15 snappy irked souls, hissing at stroppily overdressed toddlers and kicking too much matched suede luggage with a pursed fury. Top stories from Times Online
And the memory of Janet hissing unpleasant things at me in justification of her decision not to let me be her partner in Physics is fading surprisingly quickly.
They slept, zipped in nets, amid hissing insects and the slither of snakes below. Times, Sunday Times
He yelled over the clanking and hissing of the hot metal being dunked into cold water.

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