Example sentences for: hiss

How can you use “hiss” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If a "psychopath," a term that enjoyed its greatest vogue in the Cold War years, is someone who meets no inner resistance in the act of uttering and maintaining what the world holds to be untruth, the honors must go to Hiss.

  • They contend that the so-called Venona intercepts, a few of which have been released, show definitively not only that Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs were spies but also that there was far more Soviet string-pulling behind American Communism than anyone ever knew.

  • Many felt that Hiss was.

  • Tanenhaus elevates Chambers to the pantheon of great American postwar intellectuals and declares Alger Hiss a Soviet spy, and no critics object.

  • Lake has two problems: 1) his (inadvertent, he says) failure to sell some energy stocks in 1993, when he became national security adviser; and 2) Republican alarm that he might be a dangerous lefty, based on his 1970 resignation from the National Security Council over Nixon's invasion of Cambodia, and on his more recent refusal to confirm that Alger Hiss was a staff Soviet spy.


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