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sibilant
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Example Sentences
But she only lifted a warning finger and made a sibilant sound with her lips, adjuring silence.
Exemplify the sibilant impurity with such syllables as pish, false, traitress, miscreant.
But out of the muck-heap I picked five pearls—four sibilant nouns and a name that I knew before.
Grace whispered, but the sibilant swish of sounds seemed more resonant than an outspoken address might have.
The tones were first high, then low, never guttural, and possessed a certain sibilant quality.
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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sibilant, such as: affricate, click, consonant, diphthong, fricative, and implosive.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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