Synonym: continuant, fricative, sibilant consonant, spirant, strident. Similar words: sibilance, jubilant, jubilantly, sensibility, possibility, plausibility, impossibility, accessibility. Meaning: ['sɪbɪlənt] 
n. a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh). adj. of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then').
n. a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh). adj. of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then'). 
Random good picture Not show
(1) A sibilant murmuring briefly pervaded the room.
(2) Suddenly Hugo heard a harsh sibilant inhalation of breath.
(3) Wakelate applied a sizzle stick to the sibilant huffing of the gas.
(4) To pronounce with a hissing sound ; make sibilant.
(5) the sibilant sound of whispering. Sentencedict.com
(6) With a sibilant hiss, the Things began to move.
(7) Another way is through the sibilant memorizing words that would remember so many words.
(8) Turn the page, and that sibilant sound can be traced to a snake looping its way through a lush tropical wilderness.
(9) They spoke among themselves in whispers, which fell off into sibilant monosyllables, and then into nothing at all.
(10) There would have been no sound down there but the sibilant trickle of water.
(11) The Negro met the first of the ladies at the front door and let them in, with their hushed, sibilant voices and their quick, curious glances, and then disappeared.
(12) Bar Gane, who was surprisingly intolerant towards other species, spoke with a sibilant voice.
More similar words: sibilance, jubilant, jubilantly, sensibility, possibility, plausibility, impossibility, accessibility, responsibility, civic responsibility, social responsibility, vigilant, sense of responsibility, assailant, vigilante, philanthropy, philanthropic, philanthropist, fallibility, bilateral, credibility, flexibility, gullibility, jubilation, infallibility, compatibility, irascibility, thailand, incompatibility, sri lanka.