sibilant in English

adjective
1
(of a speech sound) sounded with a hissing effect, for example s , sh.
Though everyone else in the picture speaks in some variation of a British accent, poor Jolie has been given the Transylvanian throat-sucker's throaty, sibilant vowels, as well as a wardrobe of snakes.
noun
1
a sibilant speech sound.
He kept separate the constituents of consonantal clusters, relishing sibilants and fricatives as much as plosives and liquids, and studied the duration of pauses as carefully as the duration of syllables.

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1. the sibilant sound of whispering. Sentencedict.com

2. A sibilant murmuring briefly pervaded the room.

3. To pronounce with a hissing sound ; make sibilant.

4. With a sibilant hiss, the Things began to move.

5. Suddenly Hugo heard a harsh sibilant inhalation of breath.

6. Wakelate applied a sizzle stick to the sibilant huffing of the gas.

7. There would have been no sound down there but the sibilant trickle of water.

8. Bar Gane, who was surprisingly intolerant towards other species, spoke with a sibilant voice.

9. Another way is through the sibilant memorizing words that would remember so many words.

10. They spoke among themselves in whispers, which fell off into sibilant monosyllables, and then into nothing at all.

11. Turn the page, and that sibilant sound can be traced to a snake looping its way through a lush tropical wilderness.

12. The Negro met the first of the ladies at the front door and let them in, with their hushed, sibilant voices and their quick, curious glances, and then disappeared.