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Перевод: sibilant

[прилагательное]
свистящий; шипящий;
[существительное]
свистящий или шипящий звук; сибилянт

Тезаурус:

1. For a big man he had a curiously quiet voice, sibilant.
2. Miss Hatherby explained in her dry, sibilant voice, that they were sent from Paris so that London ladies could know about the latest French fashions and have them copied.
3. Gleaming French cars nosed along the cluttered roadway bearing corpulent Chinese and their bejewelled wives or concubines in their curtained interiors, and the staccato, unmelodious babble of the Cantonese dialect had entirely replaced the softer, sibilant tones of the Annamese language.
4. "Hurry, Wolfprince, for my work does not wait for such as you," he said in his sibilant whisper, but now Nuadu detected a lick of pleasure in the voice.
5. By now the bucking roar of entry had subsided into a sibilant trembling caress imperceptible against the engine throb except to possessors of Lyman's Ears.
6. It's not so much the sibilant, fey voice guaranteed to give sound engineers nightmares, or the churning guitars, or the stretched-on-a-rack arms, it's the choruses.
7. Now in the special silence of summer dusk, sibilant with drowsy leaves and little waves, another ear-rending arrow of black flew past.
8. In a sibilant, fluttering voice he read his reply from the throne in Annamese, but his delivery, unlike the Frenchman's, was hesitant and nervous and once or twice he stopped to swallow in mid-sentence.
9. Roding male flies a circuit at dusk and dawn, with an owlish flight and interrupted wing-beats, uttering two distinct notes, a rather sibilant "twisick" and a frog-like croak or grunting growl Not gregarious.
10. There would have been no sound down there but the sibilant trickle of water.
11. The astonished reptile released its grip just long enough for Laba to break free and stagger off down the track - with the serpent in hot pursuit apparently loudly vocalizing with the same sibilant barks which we were later to hear ourselves while filming a python hunt.
12. Of course, the ship was rife with ordinary gossip too, in various versions of Imperial Gothic, some halting, some fluent, in a waveband of accents from mellow to harsh, sibilant to guttural.
13. Suddenly Hugo heard a harsh sibilant inhalation of breath.