Addison's first play, Rosamond, was hissed off the stage, but the editor of the Spectator and Tattler was made of stern stuff and was determined that the world should listen to him, and it did.
It hissed as the gusts lashed it with the rain, but the blackened and dinted kettle boiled, and while they ate and drank the smoke-flavoured tea, a little warmth crept with the pungent vapour into the tent.
At one moment five of the arrows hissed through the air, and with such wonderful quickness had the shield turned to each, that three fell to the ground blunted against it, and two broke on its surface.
In a minute more he was surrounded; and through the rain of javelins that poured upon him, hissed and glittered the sword of Gryffyth.
A hundred javelins hissedinto the sullen and bloody waters.
Unfortunately, the number of those who hissedgrew every day.
And amid all this, crackled, thundered, and hissed the shells which were directed against Little Gibraltar, or whizzed from Toulon, to bring death and destruction among the besiegers.
The old man was furious at the thought of these infamies and follies; his esses hissed through his teeth and his r's rolled out with fierce emphasis.
Coiled in front of him, hissed and struck a bloated, swollen snake, with flattened head and up-turned snout.
Raising its strange pointed head, with its gold and black eyes, it hissed fearsomely.
Her voice hissed at me with all the venom of a reptile enraged.
Moa hissed against my ear: "If you want life, Gregg Haljan, you will start your duties!
As for the monkey, it was squatting on the floor of its cage, and it made a strange sound in its throat, almost a mew, and it hissed several times at the professor.
The dome had not exploded, but the air up here had almost all hissed away.
I hissed out our interior air through the dome and hull-ports, and admitted the night-air of the asteroid.
The joining was done in the next room, where the flames of the blowpipes darted and hissed and little clouds of metallic vapour shot sparks into the air.
Suddenly something flashed and hissed in her brain like a tongue of fire.
It hissed like a flame through her heart and limbs.
But they say the devil is amusing when pleased, and I must have been more venomous than the old serpent, to have hissed or stung in your company.
But I am not a mad goose," hissed the gander angrily.
Joe had been hissed on the street many times since the inimical clerk had whistled at him.
Hypocrite, be silent," hissed his mother, and he knew that the worst had overtaken him.
Bishop Lonzello clenched his fist and hissed through his teeth, "Yes; and may God damn your soul to hell.
It is asserted, that many of the inhabitants of this unfortunate city expiated under the Guillotine the crime of having formerlyhissed Collot's successful attempts on the stage.
Convention, was hissed pretty generally, while those expressing an abhorrence of Jacobinism were sung with enthusiasm.
That must be true," I answered him, "for Rossini and Malibran on their side boast of having been hissed by Neapolitans.
Nevertheless, meeting a full-blooded Rouenese one day I resolved to discover why I had been hissed at Rouen.
Rouen has hissed all my plays, including Count Hermann.
One day a Neapolitan boasted to me that he had hissed Rossini and Malibran, "The Barbiere" and "Desdemona.
Clouds of steam whirled and tossed and hissed close overhead, and there was a boiling hot rain.
It hissed against the houses; penetrated the open windows which now were all deserted; swept the front cornices of the roofs, where crowds of tenants and others were trying to hide.
But as the Martian Master's high call hissed again all the countless crocodilian forms in the great cone were rushing toward them.
Now the great bowlhissed and bubbled with a generous supply of the dark red fluid, from which rose clouds of evil-smelling steam that fanned the hideous features above.
Even as he sprang back, the deadly white vapor hissed forth from the second retortii, completely barring further retreat down the stair.
It was reported that Madame Toscani and Madame Urban had been sohissed that the Elector had leant over his box and cried "Hush!
When his "Sigismonde" had been hissed at Venice, he sent his mother a fiasco (bottle).
The story displeased the republican audience, who hissed and hooted till the turmoil compelled the fall of the curtain.
The audiencehissed "Un Giorno di Regno," for it proved a funereal attempt at mirth.
At the sound of his voice, Hooty and Mrs. Hooty, sitting in the next tree, snapped their bills and hissed louder than ever.
You see, the way Hooty hissed and snapped his great bill was very threatening, and they knew that if once he got hold of one of them with those big cruel claws of his, that would be the end.
Hooty and Mrs. Hooty snapped their bills and hissed fiercely.
The fire hissed in the waves; the same instant the ship shot by the bubble the sinking pipe made.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hissed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
