sibilation
IPA: sˈɪbʌɫˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- A hissing sound.
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Examples of "sibilation" in Sentences
- The sudden sibilation out of silence startles all,
- Amanar heard in his mind the satisfied sibilation of the god-demon feeding.
- A second muffled explosion, then silence except for the sibilation of the flames.
- As Dr. Johnson would have said: Sir, there was a habit of sibilation in the house.
- It was deceptively loud because the sharp sibilation cut through every other sound.
- I initially prepared for a comparision involving the much more famous sibilation *t ts / _u.
- Her voice was peculiar, very low and sweet, and so soft that the dominant note was of sibilation.
- Again Poole's lips moved, and now his voice was just audible as a faint sibilation, producing no intelligible sounds.
- Suddenly, like the hiss of ten thousand times ten thousand snakes, a rushing sibilation passed through the momentarily darkened air.
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