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- noun Plural form of
sibilant .
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Examples
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He said, avoiding sibilants that would highlight his lisp.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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And who are you or I to gainsay that fine sentiment, however loaded it may be with fricking sibilants and frickatives?
The Sad Songs of Spring Con Chapman 2011
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He said, avoiding sibilants that would highlight his lisp.
365 tomorrows » Duncan Shields : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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The hissing of his sibilants had made him a big target and a vicious fighter.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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I enjoy sitting in the back and listening to the two old ladies speaking in rustling sibilants together, like dry leaves.
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The hissing of his sibilants had made him a big target and a vicious fighter.
365 tomorrows » Duncan Shields : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Some might have advocated the Matthew Bible's double alliteration "So they shall break their swords and spears to make scythes and saws thereof" Coverdale adds "sickles", but the crowding of sibilants wouldn't have survived reading aloud.
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I found it interesting how in the darkroom Reba commented on how he avoided sibilants and he immediately said something full of esses without any hint of a problem.
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It babbled, in the liquid sibilants Wes had heard them use before.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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The creature's voice was flat, full of sibilants, without emotions.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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