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How to use hissing in a sentence

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Suddenly there was a loud hissing sound and thrashing of water from behind the reeds.
The blaze did nothing but feed on the building, hissing and spitting on wood and brick.
Trying that approach on Monday morning resulted in pretty blue, orange and white sparks and threatening hissing and spitting noises.
He raised an eyebrow as Strata leaped on him, hissing and spitting in fear.
Instead of purring and snuggling up to us, he was aggressive, hissing and spitting in spite of our best efforts to help him.
As soon as I was done, the cat started hissing and spitting and arched its back.
Before she could do a thing, Balac had sped in front of her, hissing and spitting at the Dragon.
The Rentaio was hissing and spitting, trying to tear the collar off himself and scratching his throat, drawing thin lines of blood.
Immediately, a serpentine creature slithered through the hole, hissing demonically as it snaked towards Space Colony One.
He pulls me through the crowd, much as I try to fight back, hissing insults and cussing at him like a sailor.
Clarice shrieked as a small crimson blur streaked towards her, hissing and spitting.
After a few more seconds of spitting and hissing, Fluffy ran from Katie's sight.
There was steam hissing from a dozen little spouts and a thick green gas hid the floor.
They made their way back to the door, the fire hissing and sputtering all around them.
For those cursed with dialup, you probably know what the modem handshake sounds like, with the hissing and screaming before it is connected.
Already the hissing had quieted, and the hanging veils of blackened smoke and steam had begun to disperse.
The wind was swirling up leaf litter and the dusty snow together and they made a dry hissing sound.
The hair at the back of her head rose to its ends as she heard the noises of the cicadas, hoots of owls and soft hissing as she ambled along.
It was the sound of dry, windblown leaves and loose paper hissing across concrete streets and sidewalks.
The unvoiced fricative phonemes stem from the hissing of a steady airstream through the mouth.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Later, when the danger to life from apnoea becomes more imminent, a hissing or whistling sound succeeds.
He paced the chamber like a beast in a cage, hissing out the words in his anger.
Then a hissing ensued, and a roll of shingle, and the water poured huddling and lappeting back from the chine itself had crannied.
And he pretended to rub down Westguard, hissing the while as do grooms when currying.
The samovar is hissing on the table by the stove, the tea things are set out.
Things boom overhead like bitterns, or scutter alongside like hares, or arise dripping and hissing from below like otters.
The djinni made a small hissing noise that had something in it of contentment.
There was a hissing sound, a flash of light, and you got groggy, and went out.
There was a hissing yet guttural sound, human in quality, yet horrible to her ears.
In a moment the door was closed behind him, air was hissing into the lock again.
And suddenly in her voice there was a sharp, hissing catch, and she stopped short.
His Brownings opened up and he saw the Stuka stagger and swerve as he thundered past in a hissing dive.
Nearly the same sort of hissing or whistling sound in breathing has been mentioned already as occurring in laryngismus stridulus.
If hissing heard anywhere, up starts the laughing jackass and down he comes on the snake, and there's an end of the hissing.
Sime, following him, his neuro hissing death from side to side, marveled at his ferocity.
Should any breath be spent in aspiration, or in hissing, or in guttural enunciation, the vocality is said to be impure.
Shot, shells, and bullets were whizzing and hissing by us as we made our way onwards.
Then, pursued by the reviling and hissing of the populace, she had been taken to prison.
Then, the ends of the torches were flung hissing into the water, and went out, as if it were all over with him.
The hissing and crackling behind me, the explosive thud as each fresh tree burst into flame, left little time for reflection.
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