Hissing

As the armadillos left, the tiny Madagascar hissing cockroaches marched in. There were nine of them, up from five last week.

It came close enough to make him crouch on the deck, and it hit the water beneath him with a hissing roar.

Suddenly, he heard a loud hissing sound coming from the gas tank in his apartment on the ground floor.

In surely going against the hissing goose theory, Mawani also suggests the city could deploy some higher technology sensors that could detect speeding and parking infractions more readily.

It doesn’t sound quite like anything else in Apple’s — or anyone’s — catalog, but something about the mastery and liberation of it reminds me of “Hissing of Summer Lawns”-era Joni Mitchell.

It serves as an "intro hiss," designed to accompany the titles graphics and also setting up for the presence of white noise hissing throughout the remainder of the theme.

Now something is hissing under you and you're locked in.

One thing I noticed right away in class is that everyone was exhaling very loudly, making a hissing sound.

Ripley’s cat, Jonesy, also roams the spaceship in fear, hissing in surprise at nearby crewmates.

But the latest observations found that gas was still being expelled at the main vent with a constant hissing sound.

Cuddly Church comes back as Hell Cat, hissing and fighting, scratching and biting, and his sudden reappearance on a busy road causes tragedy.

Hissing from the freshly poured brown butter and popping sage stimulated all my senses and sent shivers down my neck; the lasagna had arrived.

Various burps, hissing, and pops can be quite unpleasant, especially in the middle of the night.

And their gray babies are nearly adult-size now, old enough that their big parents have stopped hissing at me when I jog past.

The image is striking: a vibrant hissing serpent, the sun in its maw.

The steam from the roaring, hissing, bubbling geothermal vent pours skywards in a column that’s visible for miles around.

Unless he’s hissing at me or swatting at my legs on the way by.

Another technique he employs is use of sound or music to build tension, as heard in Alien, with hissing steam, beeping computers and the noise of the machinery in the space ship.

Domestic cats, animals similar in size to such prey species as rabbits, make a hissing sound reminiscent of a snake, advertising that they can put up formidable defenses for their size.

Elementary hallucinations are the perception of sounds such as hissing, whistling, an extended tone, and more.