(1) There is the sound of engines hissing and crackling, which have been mixed to seem as near to the ear as the camera was to the cars; there is a mostly unnoticeable rustle of leaves in the trees; periodically, so faintly that almost no one would register it consciously, there is the sound of a car rolling through an intersection a block or two over, off camera; a dog barks somewhere far away.
(2) When Trump described her father as a “tremendous champion of supporting families”, there were boos and hisses.
(3) Even if we have to wait in line for a hissing coffee machine.
(4) Feline affective defense behavior, characterized mainly by autonomic arousal, ear retraction, growling, hissing and paw striking, was elicited by electrical stimulation of the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus (VMH).
(5) Ragged-red fibers with abnormal mitochondria, cerebral spongiosis mostly involving white matter, perimacular pigmentary retinopathy and scattered myocardial fibrosis interrupting the Hiss'bundle were found.
(6) Mutants that require histidine due to an altered structural gene for the histidyl-transfer ribonucleic acid synthetase (hisS) have been isolated by a general selection for histidine-requiring strains in which the mutation producing histidine auxotrophy is unlinked to the histidine operon.
(7) If that happens, Osborne will get the blame as the hissing becomes deafening.
(8) Other factors hiss their message more perniciously.
(9) Sure, the season’s story, which focuses on Vanessa Ives’s struggle to decode the “memoirs of the devil” and fight a hissing viper pit of Lucifer’s witches, may be pure pulp burlesque, but that’s just the first layer of Penny Dreadful’s charm.
(10) Supporters of the Tunisian national football team whistle and hiss at the French national anthem before the match.
(11) Hissing and directed attack were selected for threshold determination.
(12) The earphones were with Eva, 11, who was listening to the soundtrack of Glee at a loud enough level to produce that particularly annoying mixture of hiss and thud.
(13) For the 30 years I have followed Spurs to away games – in pubs, around tube stations, on the streets around the ground and within Stamford Bridge itself, the venom, ignorance and breathtaking casualness of Chelsea fans’ references to Jews, Auschwitz, the Holocaust and foreskins, often accompanied by a hissing simulation of gas chambers, is simply shocking – not least because it goes unchallenged by police, stewards or the club itself, bar a token reference furtively hidden away in the match-day programme.
(14) Most tourists satisfy themselves with a quick drive around the crater rim, stopping for photos at the viewing points, but if you really want to smell the sulphur, feel the heat of the lava and hear the hissing of the steam vents, a bike tour is perfect.
(15) Arthur had a hapless sidekick, Chester Drawers, who he’d humiliate roundly in front of an audience, then come off stage and double down on by hissing something like: “I’ve seen a monkey take a pie better than that!” Will May’s government soon be forced to undergo an emergency Borisectomy?
(16) The injection of the D1-selective antagonist SCH 23390 (0.3 nmol), however, did not inhibit apomorphine-induced facilitation of hissing.
(17) The somatic and autonomic displays which accompanied defensive behavior were similar between stimuli, consisting of mydriasis, piloerection, growling, hissing and paw strikes.
(18) (“He took the cork out and spilled a little on the wooden plank of the pier; it hissed like steam.”) Only later in the last century did the crime begin to be associated with the developing rather than the developed rather than the developed world, as a function of male oppression and feudalism, rather than the green-eyed cruelty of richer societies.
(19) That said, as we make our way up the stairs he lets out a hiss of air.
(20) Air hissed out, leading to normalisation of arterial and venous pressures.
Pissed
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
(2) In the most hard-hitting attack on the Labour leader by any of his MPs since Ukip squeezed the party’s vote in the Heywood and Middleton byelection, Field accused Miliband of “pissing while Rome burns”.
(3) We haven't changed that much, we still take the piss out of each other, there's an understanding there that hasn't gone away.
(4) Brand isn’t the messiah (or just a naughty boy, for that matter) and his message pisses off plenty of people.
(5) Then there's me and my buddy Ralph Garman , who does a daily radio show in LA, doing our entertainment podcast Hollywood Babble-On , which is basically just two guys who've worked in showbiz long enough to have informed opinions, sitting around taking the piss out of the entertainment industry.
(6) Or the story about how Rich was en route from Switzerland to Finland and had to order his jet to reverse course at 20,000ft to avoid being arrested by the FBI at Helsinki airport; or the secret tunnel he built between the 'Dallas building' and the Glashof restaurant opposite so he could slip out to lunch without fear of being assassinated; or the time he was held hostage in Azerbaijan while his captors considered whether or not to sell him to the Russians (who were allegedly pissed off with Rich for nicking their reserves of gold and other precious metals), or the rumours that Rich had slipped in and out of Britain and the US on numerous occasions under false passports.
(7) I haven’t even watched it again because I’m so pissed off about the first one, because I thought Manny could have made that fight much easier than he did.
(8) Of course, after Hitler got into power and Low started, beautifully, to take the piss, Low, along with his cartooning colleagues Illingworth, Vicky and even Heath Robinson, was placed on the Gestapo's deathlist.
(9) The catch is that the wine has been spiked with an extinguished cigarette, bogies, phlegm, piss and maggots; Ryle tackles it with vigour.
(10) Rather than open downstairs and piss off the council, I decided to take it more slowly,” he says.
(11) To my teenage self, who wanted to join Baader-Meinhof and rob banks hand-in-hand with my dead-eyed dream-date Magdalena Kopp, she was the ultimate Hollywood bad girl, always pissing off the right people.
(12) But I know they will complement my weaknesses and help me make better decisions because they will challenge me and, at times, that will piss me off because I want them to think like me and be as excited as me,” he says.
(13) Charly Rexach played for Barcelona between 1965 and 1981 and talks about winning the cup, "their cup", as a way of "really pissing [Real Madrid] off."
(14) The only advantage to being considered insane is, Shields says, that "people don't get as angry with you when you piss them off".
(15) "I sometimes got the feeling that Kurt enjoyed that I pissed people off.
(16) It was written about in the press, and taken the piss out of on other late-night shows.
(17) After the game we shake hands and everything else – what the hell, you’re going to get pissed off?
(18) The only response in these circumstances is to do what the Guardian did – throw your hands up and take the piss .
(19) He said: "The office said she's taking the piss here.
(20) I had phoned up all the national newspapers to say that “something big” was going to happen, and they were a bit pissed off because it wasn’t the dramatic stunt they thought it would be.