VERB
- pronounce with an initial sibilant
- utter a sibilant
- express or utter with a hiss
- make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval
How To Use sibilate In A Sentence
- This would return forms of the verb annuntiare whether assimilated or not (ann - vs. adn-), assibilated or not (nunci - vs. nuncti-).
- Nor yet the Austrian cross-breeds who are to be beheld behind the _gulasch_ in the Rue d'Hauteville, nor the semi-Milanese who sibilate the _minestrone_ at Aldegani's in the Passage des Panoramas, nor the Frenchified Spaniards and Portuguese who gobble the _guisillo madrileño_ at Don José's in the Rue Helder, nor the half-French Cossacks amid the _potrokha_ in the Restaurant Cubat, nor the Orientals with the waxed moustachios and girlish waists who may be observed at moontide dawdling over their _café à la Turque_ at Madame Europe After 8:15
- ‘Come here,’ the young man sibilates, but then he sits down next to her.
- He sibilated sharply and slammed Trey's iced coffee on the counter, stumbling back frantically.
- Vishal loved the way they sibilated the word.
- In the syllable /si/, the /s/ sibilates in Japanese
- The needle, as it glides across the grooves, sibilates softly and crackles once or twice.
- 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
- Moreover, gay men who speak with what a North American newsreader would consider an ‘accent’ - such as British, Australian, or even Texan gays - rarely assibilate at all.
- (Lat. e, oe, ae) and i the c had already begun to assibilate in Latin itself; in O.Sp. it yielded the voiceless dental sibilant c The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon