Example sentences for: hiss

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

  • 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.

  • One can believe, as I do, Chambers' testimony against Hiss without accepting his interpretation of the Soviet-American confrontation.

  • That its recruitment of Alger Hiss, a top official present at the Yalta conference (which set the conditions for the Cold War by selling out Eastern Europe) and an architect of the United Nations (which granted independent votes to Soviet subject states of Eastern Europe), was an exception, or a trifle?

  • Strangely, Tanenhaus chooses to withhold all information about Hiss until he gets to the 1948 Chambers-Hiss confrontation.

  • Musicians return to folk and blues roots, and reject studio techniques with a low-fi movement (Guided by Voices) that treasures spontaneity and tape hiss.


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