hiss
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Not a call of the wild, a roar or a hiss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Considering the jumped-up summer performance tires, road and tire hiss at speed were minimal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
The theater reopened this past weekend with “The Great Bank Robbery,” a 30-minute-plus show in which audiences are encouraged to boo, hiss and swoon over the characters, a Bird Cage tradition since 1954.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
Play Under The Rain or Breathe Again and you'll hear a telltale hiss running throughout the tracks.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
When he made a weak move, which was rare, he’d sit bolt upright and inhale, emitting a sound like a snake’s hiss.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
As the helium hisses out, the volunteers flatten the plastic skin, tucking in Snoopy’s ears or SpongeBob’s nose to prepare for the final roll.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
Bob Clendenin is funny as a needy, talkative pilot, and Gonzalo Menendez earns his hisses as a crooked cop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024
The only sounds definitively recorded from adult female ostriches were hisses.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
“I told you to dress street!” hisses Arthur to Monk, who’s indignant — the author, who’s swapped a plain, tidy gray T-shirt for his customary button-down, thinks he’s dressed perfectly street.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
"What are you still doing here?" he hisses at me.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
When incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall stepped to the microphone at last weekend’s Kansas State Fair debate, hundreds of those gathered booed, hissed and jeered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
When she poked her head outside to see what was going on, someone hissed at her to “get out of town.”
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
At the bank's annual general meeting that year, normally sedate elderly shareholders hissed and booed.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026
The fat hissed in greeting, and within seconds the kitchen was filled with oregano’s scent.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2025
“Tante Corrie!” he hissed when we were on the other side of the room.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
I caught the film at a recent matinee in New Orleans, and children and adults alike gasped at Harryhausen’s movie monsters – from the looming metal colossus of Telos to the hissing and slithering Hydra.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
But one of the earliest signs may be something unexpected: a persistent ringing, buzzing, or hissing sound that no one else can hear.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
The cistern on my toilet has been constantly refilling and making a hissing noise, so I asked a plumbing company to send someone over.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
They found Madagascar "hissing" cockroaches, a bulky insect named for its noisy defence mechanism, and dubia cockroaches, an invasive critter bred as a snack for pet lizards.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Today there was just the small yellow pool splattering slimy bubbles, and the rocks around—too hot to touch, hissing steam from every crack.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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