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So ginger ale and tonic water became sick-day staples in our home, a bottle uncapped with a satisfying carbonated hiss if someone had a fever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The midtempo “Ridin’ High” starts with a descending harp glissando that pours into a synthesizer seasoned by a vibraslap’s rattlesnake hiss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 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

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

The camera cuts to Elizabeth’s actual surroundings: a New York City apartment, where the radiator clacks and hisses in place of a crackling fire, and the view is brick, not snow-dusted pasture.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025

I’m particularly fond of how the Na’vi express themselves in hisses and coyote yips and exhale the foreign name Jake Sully like a sneeze.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025

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

Despite a few more eh-whatever feedback hisses than there should have been during the first half of the band’s set, Climate Pledge Arena has literally never sounded better than it did Tuesday.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2024

The train hisses to a stop, and I’m off.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

"You're not fit to wear the shirt," West Ham supporters hissed at their side following the visitors' 3-1 defeat against Newcastle United.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

The Miami crowd, under the impression they were there to be entertained, hissed and booed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

“It’s called negotiations,” Trump hissed at a reporter who asked him about it Wednesday.

From Salon ● May 29, 2025

As she touted her old man’s alleged feminist leanings—with a straight face!—the crowd giggled, hissed, and booed.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2024

“Don’t be an idiot!” he hissed, and pulled her back.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

The group could hear the hissing of the wind and the creaking of the ropes running down from the mast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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

The offenders were stopped in their tracks by audience members shushing - some even hissing - or having a quiet word, but in each case it still momentarily broke the spell of the film.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 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