hiss

Example Sentences

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Play Under The Rain or Breathe Again and you'll hear a telltale hiss running throughout the tracks.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

A symphonic mix of an espresso machine’s hiss, a ravenous juicer’s whir and ebullient Spanish welcomed me at my new favorite, Las Olas Cafe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Insults hit her with a knife-like hiss of air; fresh schemes get her charging around to Hildur Guðnadóttir’s tumultuous, percussive score.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025

And so somewhere, between the hiss of butter and the smell of roasting chicken, she is still there, reminding every cook who’ll listen: “Brown food tastes good.”

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025

As they rear and hiss and jump at each other you are distracted by the fact that they are both no longer stark white but a perfect ebony black.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern