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sibilance
noun as in hiss
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The gentle sibilance of air drawn through the glowing nest of tobacco is the only sound.
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"I am here as a witness," a thousand mocking voices seemed to hiss in echoed sibilance.
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She laughed, a mirthless sibilance that was marvelously like a snake's hissing, her eyes hard and dry.
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Distress signals hissed into the atmosphere in urgent sibilance, then faltered and died away.
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Then the breaking of a twig and the sibilance of whispering voices—two of them—perhaps more.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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