Tinker, serving out ham, pink and savoury, from the hissing frying pan, while Diana poured out the coffee.
Wondering, I obeyed and beheld a hissing ostler rubbing down a dusty horse.
With the wind came the rain, a passing summer-night's shower of great drops spattering on the leaves above and dripping thence to fall hissing in the fires.
Slowly Eglington moved back to put the retort on a long table against the wall, and Soolsby stepped forward till he stood where the electric sparks were gently hissing about him.
Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy, ready beforehand in a little saucepan, hissing hot.
When the shoe is satisfactory, it is thrust hissing into a barrel of cold water, and, when cooled and hardened, is ready to be nailed on.
Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the northeast; The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast.
Listening carefully he went nearer and nearer to the spot whence the sound came, and he saw that the forest was on fire and that the hissing proceeded from a snake that was surrounded by flames.
One day, as he drove his sheep through a forest to the pasture, he heard a hissing sound, and wondered what it could be.
Their hissing and groans are heard especially during the nights in spring and autumn.
Yet there is a sound rising clear in memory, perhaps more wonderful even than the shrieking of tortured human beings or the hissing of molten lava.
There was a little hissing as the prisoner vanished, a free man; and some hooting in the street, in which he reappeared, contrary to expectation, within a minute.
It seemed that the hot flames of hell were turned loose in all their fury, while the demons of damnation were laughing in the flames, like seething serpents hissing out their rage.
The zig-zag lightnings began to flare and flash, and sheet after sheet of wild flames seemed to burst right over our heads and were hissing around us.
He uttered a low, hissing sound as he stood there thinking, his brow knit, and an angry glare in his eye.
Daily's teeth gritted together in the darkness, and she uttered a low, hissing noise, as she writhed in her jealousy, and pictured to herself the scene that was probably going on at the Hall.
The distance to the ground looked impassable, and she could not collect her thoughts for the hissing of the flame as it ate up the floor in the room behind her.
Streams of the electric fluid, running down the stems of the tall trees, went hissing along the ground like fiery serpents.
There was a hissing sound, and the Comet, whose propellers had ceased revolving, shot downward.
Accordingly the vapor machine was set in operation, and soon a hissing announced that the gas was entering the big bag that formed the superstructure of the Comet.
The airship shot forward through the darkness shrouded in gloom--no, not completely, for the great search light still glowed, and that offered a mark for the hissing rockets and aerial bombs.
Soon the hissing of the gas generator told that vapor was being forced into the bag.
There was a hissing sound as the gas rushed into the big bag, a straining of the holding ropes, and then, as they were cast off, the motor-ship rose into the air.
There was a hissing sound, a cloud of steam arose, and the fire at that particular point died out.
Once, twice, three times Jack pulled the whistle cord, and he heard the hissing of escaping air that told of the signal sounding in the locomotive cab.
The steam was hissing horribly, as you hear it now.
At the same instant there were heavy steps going along on the other side of the boilers to the stoke hole, a loud exclamation heard above the hissing and shrieking of the steam.
Then, stooping down, he entered the adit, out of which the clanging sound of the huge pump went on volleying, while the water kept up its hissing and rushing sound.
A full five minutes they stood there, and then suddenly a swirl of water splashed foaming about their feet, and a wave washed past them and ran hissing round the buggy wheels.
They heard distinctly the thud of bare feet on the floor, as if a man had leaped from a bed or chair, then a hissing whisper, and then a voice.
With an oath Steve jerked his whip round, the thong swung up, and with a hissing snap slashed down across Ned’s back in a vicious drawing cut.
But the rain came heavier and heavier, till soon it was pouring a deluge again, and beating on the buggy and hissing on the wet ground.
When hissing hot cover with peeled sweet potatoes, cut into thin slices lengthwise.
When the pan is hissing hot, pour in the batter, filling each compartment half or two thirds full.
Bake in buttered gem-pans, hissing hot, in a quick oven.
There was only the fire on the hearth hissing and leaping as if in anger at its defeated design.
Then with the same deadly fear in their hearts, they hurried out into the soughing wind, down to the beach, baited on all sides by the swift-darting hissing surf.
In front of her was a faint white line, where the rollers spread their foam with mournful restless fugue of long drawn roar and hissing sigh.
Tigellinus was always hissing his name in his ears, and Agrippina blazoning him as a resource wherewith to secure her vengeance.
The gold which overlaid the cedarwork ran molten through the hissing stream of the carnage of its defenders, and the Holiest Place sank into heaps of ghastly ruin to have its site defiled with swinish offerings and pagan shrines.
And above his hissing breath, that gushed between his lips with the sound of air pumped through the fine mesh of a colander, there rose a still more ghastly croak of exultation and of triumph.
And with their yapping came the droning, hissing monotone of the aurora, like the song of a vast piece of mechanism in the still farther north.
He rushed to the table, where he had placed a pail of water the evening before, and Billy heard the hissing of the water as it struck the flaming wall.
On every side of it extends a desolate plain of lava that once must have boiled up red-hot from some distant gateway of hell, and fallen hissing into the sea.
I screamed aloud, and scalded, half blinded, agonised, I staggered through the leaping, hissing water towards the shore.
The generators of the Heat-Rays waved high, and the hissing beams smote down this way and that.
Outside there began a metallic hammering, then a violent hooting, and then again, after a quiet interval, a hissing like the hissing of an engine.
And through this two Martians slowly waded, and turned their hissing steam jets this way and that.
Some of those who saw its flight say it travelled with a hissing sound.
Then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud, droning noise.
At the same time a faint hissing sound became audible.
Forth-with the hissing and humming ceased, and the black, dome-like object sank slowly out of sight into the pit.
A wave larger than the rest thundered and ran hissing up to their feet.
They came, towed at the end of their tethers, with manifest reluctance; hanging back at their strings, flapping their wings, and hissing at us indignantly.
The hissing ceased, the growl diminished, the stealthy paws moved slowly.
His lips were parted, his mouth open, his breath came hissing from his throat.
His words came rolling out in a deep, husky, guttural tone, or leaped forth hissing with anger.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hissing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
