Definitions
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- adverb With a
hissing orsibilant sound.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Their breath came and went sibilantly, and the darkness was alive with the excitement they thought themselves too warrior-like to utter.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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There was a slight breeze blowing, a wispy, barely perceptible current of air that animated the blue-lit grass stalks and whispered sibilantly.
Baby Games Chelsea White 2010
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A voice will whisper sibilantly from a dark corner: We hates they others, Master, we hates them, we hates them.
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Tsedraiter: the Tse to be pronounced sibilantly, with a sort of lisping hiss: Tsss, Tsss; the vowel sound somewhere between a sir and a sid: Tsssirdraiter/Tsssidraiter; the second and third syllables to rhyme with hater.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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"This lies between you and me," he said sibilantly.
The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005
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Yes -- I had heard it, lying half-waking in the bunks or on the floor -- whispered sibilantly by Yun Shatu or by Hassim or by Yussef Ali, the Moor, muttered in their low-voiced conversations and mingled always with words I could not understand.
The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005
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There was no audible quarreling among the cabmen, and when you called a cab it was useless to cry “Heigh!” or shake your umbrella; you made play with your thumb and finger in the air and sibilantly whispered; otherwise the cabman ignored you and went on reading his newspaper.
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For a moment or two he remains silent as sibilantly he purses his lips and drinks some saffron-coloured tea from the saucer which the splayed fingers of his right hand are balancing on their tips.
Through Russia 2003
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Love – making is going on sibilantly, seductively in the darker places of the room behind thick green curtains.
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As if a hundred Hannahs had all gotten together and murmured sibilantly, The First Time.
Night World No. 2 L.J. SMITH 1997
sionnach commented on the word sibilantly
"Insssectsss that can foretell the future? Sssoundss unlikely!" Tom said sibilantly.
February 24, 2007