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  • noun Plural form of sibilance.

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Examples

  • “He expects to claim Tie-tan and its technology as his own,” the Gorn said in a voice that sang with low growls and soft sibilances.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • “He expects to claim Tie-tan and its technology as his own,” the Gorn said in a voice that sang with low growls and soft sibilances.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • “He expects to claim Tie-tan and its technology as his own,” the Gorn said in a voice that sang with low growls and soft sibilances.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • From her lips came the same hideous soft sibilances, and Bran, though he had already known the grisly secret of her being, knew that never again could he touch her save with soul-shaken loathing.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

  • What they called themselves, we never knew; for none of our tribe ever learned the accursed hissing sibilances they used as speech; but we called them Children of the Night.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • "I sleep in the palace chamber of Akbatana, " the sibilances continued.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • "I sleep in the palace chamber of Akbatana, " the sibilances continued.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • 'I sleep in the palace chamber of Akbatana,' the sibilances continued.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • There was a singing discernible on the line in the ensuing silence between them and, faintly, Nicholas could make out the inconstant sibilances of other voices, like ghosts ', raised in argument.

    The Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1980

  • ` I sleep in the palace chamber of Akbatana, 'the sibilances continued.

    Black Colossus Howard, Robert E. 1979

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