Hissing

//ˈhɪsɪŋ//

"Hissing" in a Sentence (13 examples)

The television is making a hissing noise.

He rushed up through the blinding smoke and hissing flames, till he reached the children.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to procure the largest quantity of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

The audience is booing and hissing.

What's this hissing sound?

Lashed into foam, behind them roars the brine; / now, gliding onward to the beach, ere long / they gain the fields, and rolling bloodshot eyne / that blaze with fire, the monsters move along, / and lick their hissing jaws, and dart a flickering tongue.

I was hissing.

I kept hissing.

I resumed my hissing.

Tom is hissing with malice.

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Our solid, shiny chairs, our immense, dingy sofas, our heavy mahogany tables and our cast-iron fenders, often bearing the initials of long-dead railway companies, likewise our plaster walls of chocolate and duck-egg green and our hissing gasoliers have their roots deep in our national history.

At all times when kissing and such like things are begun, the woman should give a reply with a hissing sound.

The hissings and screamings of the vulgar against him as he moved forward on his stedfast course he heeded less than those of geese on a common.

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