sibilant

How To Use sibilant In A Sentence

• If the point of the tongue be placed between the teeth, and air from the mouth be forced between them, the Th sibilant is produced, as in thigh, and should have a proper character, as [TN: Looks like the Greek 'phi']. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
• A slight aspirate preceding and modifying the sibilant, which is, however, the stronger of the two consonants; _e.g. hsing_ = _hissing_ without the first _i_, Myths and Legends of China
• His deep, slightly sibilant voice right by my ear nearly made me jump out of my skin. TIME OF THE WOLF
• TH is either sibilant as in thigh; or semivocal as in thee; both of which are simple sounds, and want two new characters. Note XV
• To Rosie's horror, Melissa makes her grand entrance wearing what she terms "a jersey mumu" or, "Jersey mumu"... you really can't tell with those sibilant Ss. Una LaMarche: Pregnant in Heels Ep. 5: Serve and Deliver
• He kept separate the constituents of consonantal clusters, relishing sibilants and fricatives as much as plosives and liquids, and studied the duration of pauses as carefully as the duration of syllables.
• The -i- neighbouring s also would motivate the later palatalization of the sibilant to ś. Archive 2010-06-01
• They stood close together in the cramped space, and he spoke softly in the remembered sibilant voice. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
• Once the sibilant disappeared, it would be all too easy for even a native speaker to get confused between a historical phonetic k an allophone of voiced *gʰ following a sibilant and the homophonous phoneme *k. PIE "look-alike stems" - *(s)kerp- vs. *gʰrebʰ-
• Pishing, the use of certain sibilant sounds to attract hidden birds, works because it triggers the level of hostile curiosity that presages mobbing.