as in whistled
to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \s\
the frightened kitten hissed at us when we tried to pick it up
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Recent Examples of hissed
The heaters hissed and clanked, let off steam, fogged up the windows.
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Literary Hub, 16 Dec. 2025
Many more dogs licked the cat than the opposite, and more felines ignored, ran away, and hissed at the dog than vice versa.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
Getting hissed off So here’s a thing that happened.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
Nineteen hours after departure the train took its final breath, hissed and braked into the historic port of Narvik.
—The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
The previous week, Nini had boldly hissed at her from five feet away.
—Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hissed
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That prospect flared up for Seoane as the home fans whistled and booed at the final whistle, and became reality on Monday when the club’s board acted.—
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For Washington, though, numbers bubbled to the surface in the 24-17 win.—
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Louis Vuitton, Bottega Veneta, and Coperni bubbled their hems while Tove and Calvin Klein opted for deep-V necklines and ground-grazing lengths.—
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Allen swished a 3 with two seconds to spare.—
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Jamar Brown swished a 3-pointer from the corner and scored a layup off an inbound pass.—
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But that possession fizzled quickly and the Lions scored last, winning the game on Bates’ 42-yard field goal as time expired.—
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Darnold is the only quarterback other than Tom Brady to lead consecutive 14-win seasons, but all those wins fizzled for Darnold in last year's first-round loss with Minnesota.—
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The Austrian destination where for years Princess Diana brought her sons to go skiing and King Juan Carlos of Spain whizzed down the slopes with his wife Sofía is reinventing itself.—
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Traffic whizzed by the shady corner of Boulevard and Archibald Avenue on the cold Monday afternoon.—
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Snoop hilariously sizzled when Warriors coach Steve Kerr stormed the court in the fourth quarter of the Clippers’ 103-102 victory.—
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Zacha cut to the high slot and sizzled a wrist shot over Binnington’s glove arm.—
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“Hissed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hissed. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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