sibilance

Nor did I hear any sibilance, either before or after the sound.

She was surprised by the liquid sibilance of the language.

And yet, to Emerson, the rich sibilance of her voice was like music.

He allowed the sibilance of the word to emphasize his meaning.

My skin almost fell off when the door parted with a sibilance and someone came in.

Passing through the building, his ears caught the sibilance of human speech.

Another corner issued the same sibilance, giving Touch a second scare.

"We need to be serious about Syria," he says with pleasing sibilance.

That sentence emerged quite clearly from the rest of the unintelligible sibilance.

Behind, we heard the increasing sibilance of rushing water.

He stood just within the doorway and his laugh came in sinister sibilance.

A low sibilance, nearly a whistle, emanated from the far end of the room.

This will reduce sibilance and keep breathing sounds from becoming too prominent.

I realized the place was silent except for the sibilance from the ducts above us.

There was an unpleasant background sibilance to the translated words when it spoke.

No more than a soft whirr and sibilance of its tires.

They heard the electronic beep again and the sibilance of a whisper, but couldn't make out the words.

There was a trace of alien sibilance in it.

The voice had a peculiar soft sibilance of tone.

He sighed with a sibilance like pearls rubbed in velvet.

He heard the eerie sibilance in his mind again: 'Fe'edjinn!

It came with sinister sibilance, like a tone from an outer sphere of space.

Its sibilance had a penetration, that worked upon the ears of rigid, staring men.

There was something fierce in the sibilance with which Glook pronounced the name.

The soft sibilance of the android, at once cruel and compassionate.