sibilate

Chuck Coggins, Sam Shelton, Louis Delucca: obviously, there was some connection between a sibilate s and a complete lack of interest in the State versus Carolina issue.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

He achieved what I take to be the supreme compliment of noisy hushings sibilated from the pit and gallery when the later curtains rose.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman

"Do you think it's worth while?" sibilated Miss Miranda in answer.

From Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

For the question that sibilated in Grafton street cafes and at the tram change at Nelson pillar was: "Will Dublin Castle permit?"

From What's the Matter with Ireland? by Ruth Russell

Dozia sibilated, pointing to Judith who had actually turned over.

From Jane Allen, Junior by Edith Bancroft

"Tom," was the word whispered, "Steele" was the sibilated response.

From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray

And when I walk amid the foliage of these autumn days, it begins to quarrel with an excitable sibilating duck: “It’s rabbit season!”

From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2010

A sibilating hiss, no louder than the noise made by steam escaping from a kettle-spout, sounded close beside my foot.

From Pledged to the Dead by Seabury Quinn

And there he sits, meditating over Carlyle’s crepitating fire and Rousseau’s writhing, sibilating flame.

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

The theatre was crowded in every part: expectation was on tiptoe: anticipation as to his person, voice, and manner, was announced by the sibilating "I guess" heard around, and "pretty considerable" agitation prevailed.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 268, August 11, 1827 by Various

Its voice is a harsh, grating hiss; it makes the noise when alarmed or when disturbed by passing canoes, all the individuals sibilating as they fly heavily away from tree to tree.

From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates