Sentence examples for hissing through from inspiring English sources

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And "dreadful was the din/Of hissing through the hall..."...

Avoid calling the fine, feathered object hissing through the air a birdie.

What I heard was the audible suck of all the moisture being drawn from that person's body, it went out his mouth, hissing through the mic.

There comes a point in most of his performances where the kettle reaches a boil, hissing through its steam; here it happened on a piece, as yet unrecorded, with the working title "Simple Vibe".

One of them recalled, "He had an extraordinary way of pouring out sentences, if he got started, in Dutch, English and French, then glancing back at you over his shoulder, and hissing through his teeth".

"How meaning slips around in the shadow of words, hissing through the gaps in their definitions?" After '56 : "Hungary tried a socialist-capitalism that was like squaring a circle," he recounted the other day.

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The Tyrant would "applaud from his loge", but the poet from the back rows would hiss through clenched teeth: "You creep".

The Tyrant would "applaud from his loge", but the poet from the back rows would hiss through clenched teeth: "You creep". This city would have a cafe "with a quite decent blancmange" where, if the poet should ask his colleague why we need the 20th century when we already have the 19th, "my colleague would stare fixedly at his fork or his knife".

The air hissed through my spokes as the path became level.

It hissed through the air and landed smack on the face, like a gob of mud.

The swamp-cooler air hissed through the sealed house, racing out the open door.

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