Word Finder - hissed

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To make a hissing sound.

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As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me.

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To condemn or express contempt (for someone or something) by hissing.

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The crowd booed and hissed her off the stage.

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To utter (something) with a hissing sound.

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To move with a hissing sound.

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The arrow hissed through the air.

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To emit or eject (something) with a hissing sound.

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To whisper, especially angrily or urgently.

Suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that everyone ducked.

She hissed at the pain.

He hissed, "I will stop when you have silenced yourselves."

Katie hissed as they waited in the hall.

Who was it? he hissed, his eyes burning with fury.

It was dark.  The dual moons of the underworld were high overhead, another sign she hadn't slept more than an hour or two.  The trees overhead hissed as the branches moved like snakes in a soft breeze.  Gabriel held out a hand and pulled her up, silent despite his size and small armory of weapons.

Intriguer! she hissed viciously, and tugged with all her might at the portfolio.

She sat on a thick log.  He disappeared into the shadows of the jungle, and she pulled her knees to her chest, listening.  He was silent while the branches overhead hissed and rasped against one another and the cries of distant birds drifted to her.

Jule hissed through his teeth and more blood bubbled up, but the lodged arrow refused to move.

Damian hissed beside her, his grip on her neck tightening.

A'Ran hissed as he released his breath and opened his eyes.

He glared at him with his face barely an inch away and hissed, Let's get one thing straight, Skippy, Sarah is the best woman you and I will ever know.

He hissed in pain, his dark eyes growing distant.

He also posed as an author and patron of literature; his poems, severely criticized by Philoxenus, were hissed at the Olympic games; but having gained a prize for a tragedy on the Ransom of Hector at the Lenaea at Athens, he was so elated that he engaged in a debauch which proved fatal.

Lastly, one of his pieces (Le Baron des Fondrieres) contests the honour of being the first which was hissed off the stage.

He was publicly hissed at his lecture, and found it prudent to resign his professorship and withdraw to Florence in 1591.

She hissed at him.

Mrs. Lincoln hopped down, stretched languidly, looked at Dawkins and hissed.

Jessi hissed at Xander.

In convocation, when the supremacy was discussed (11th of February 1531), he declared that acceptance would cause the clergy "to be hissed out of the society of God's holy Catholic Church"; and it was his influence that brought in the saving clause, quantum per legem Dei licet.

Going in state to Ascot the queen was hissed by some ladies as her carriage drove on to the course, and two peeresses, one of them a Tory duchess, were openly accused of this unseemly act.

Its eyes glowed bright green in the headlight, and he bared tiny fangs as he hissed at me.

It was great fun hissing him, but greater fn when he hissed back!

He hissed through his teeth, in unconscious imitation of a popular favorite in melodrama, " Him shall she never wed!

I then shooed Slinky into the house, and he hissed at me!

I then shooed Slinky into the house, and he hissed at me !

As we tried to put them back together, she hit one and hissed at it numerous times.

As they approached, she turned and hissed at them.

Her nose was mere inches from his as she hissed something in Spanish.

Those vamps she passed hissed at her.