After that I heard nothing for a time save the sibilant whisperings of the Ferara and the German long-sword, and saw nothing save the fierce eyes glaring at me out of the midst of the plaster-marred smile.
And then came the puzzling plaintive notes again, as different as possible from the sibilant ones, and it became absolutely necessary to discover whether they were uttered by the same creature.
Sometimes the plaintive voice, but oftener the sibilant notes, would be uttered quite close to me, and the singer would stay for some time in the same bush, hidden from my sight, but near at hand.
Here I heard a sibilant noise, which in the distance I had taken for the Grasshopper Warbler; though I had had doubts of it, as it was not prolonged for more than two or three seconds.
A sibilant trill is probably what is meant in a passage of the Greek Anthology (i.
The sibilant noise was all this time going on close at hand.
I therefore assumed, by way of trial, that the snakes in the diagram stood for a sibilant letter, that is, either C or S.
Only a stutter falling withsibilant hiss upon the dismayed congregation.
Mark disappeared for a moment; the surface of the pool was troubled; then, with a soft, sibilant sound, the waters rose and enveloped the goddess.
Expectoration is scanty, and auscultation reveals a harsh vesicular murmur or else sibilant râles.
It usually occurs early in the attack, and makes itself known by the presence of sonorous and sibilant râles, which give place later to mucous râles.
During the hottest part of the day they perch in trees and hold a concert, if such a term may be applied to a torrent of sibilant twitter.
Its more usual note is described by Jerdon as "a loud sibilant whistle"; it also utters a variety of chattering sounds, which proclaim it a true babbler.
With increasing frequency gusts of air set the trees a-shiver until their sibilantwhispers of warning filled the valley.
The night was dark and murmurous with a sibilant wind that sent the leaves drifting, softly clashing one with another.
Aph-Lin emitted the soft sibilant sound which is the nearest approach to laughter that a full-grown An permits to himself, ere he replied: "Pardon my discourteous but momentary indulgence of mirth at any observation seriously made by my guest.
He spoke slowly, musingly, in his huskily sibilant tones.
He had spoken in his usual husky andsibilant voice.
Above I could hear the soft, sibilant sound of the escaping gas, not unlike the hiss of a snake.
In a possessive followed by the word sake or the word side, dislike to [of] the double sibilant makes us sometimes drop the inflection.
But does the dislike of the double sibilant account for the dropping of the s in these cases?
But an autumn wind was blowing shrilly down the chimney; one could hear the sibilant rush of the dead leaves on the blast.
It seemed as if that low, stealthy, sibilant whispering was going on forever.
The Zara's sibilant exclamation startled him into looking at her once more.
The tiger woman uttered one fierce sibilant like the hiss of a serpent, a terrifying sound that silenced the hunchback and brought him stiffly to attention, mouth open and eyes bulging with horror.
Sin Sin Wa uttered one sibilant word, withdrew his hands from his sleeves, and, stepping around the end of the counter, dropped upon his knees beside the raven.
No, woman of indifferent intelligence," he said in his queer sibilant language, "since when has murder gone unpunished in these British dominions?
From the next room there came a succession of husky sibilant sounds, as though some one were whispering hurriedly and continuously.
The tones were first high, then low, never guttural, and possessed a certain sibilant quality.
She would have bade him good-bye, but he hissed after her another sibilant "hush!
As she said nothing the old man repeated his sibilant warning: "Hush!
Was it friend or enemy who evidently tried to attract her attention by this sibilant sound?
I could see only its shadow, but a sharp, sibilant breath from Smith told me that he, from his post, could see the cause of the shadow.
Stires and Ching Po were within, and from the sibilant noise that stirred the peaceful air, I judged that Ching Po was talking.
There was the sibilantsound of a breath being drawn in and, at the same moment, Mr. Darton's voice again.
They heard the sibilanthush of the River flood-tide; and the warm June dark enveloped them as in a caress.
With the slant light came the sibilant hush, the quiet tangible.
From the purpling Valley came the sibilant hush of the River.
The knife struck the water with a sibilant splash.
As he stepped into the light a low, sibilant whisper reached him.
The soft, sibilant sounds seemed like kisses on the lips of the victims of their treacherous caresses.
Her dress was silk, and rustled when she moved, with soft and sibilant sounds.
In Latin there is no evidence for the interchange of c with a sibilant earlier than the 6th century A.
In other dialects, however, it had been palatalized to a sibilant before i-sounds some time before the Christian era; e.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sibilant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: effervescent; hissing; sizzling; snoring; wheezing
