Example sentences for: hiss

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

  • "The only two non-Jews in the communist conspiracy," [Nixon] said, "were [Whittaker] Chambers and [Alger] Hiss.

  • 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.

  • Even The Nation , famously defensive on the question of Hiss, calls the biography "an honest and indispensable book that goes a long way toward restoring to Chambers an elementary human plausibility" (gosh, thanks).

  • His mother was cold and controlling; his father and sister both committed suicide (in 1907 and 1929, respectively); his beloved brother died of alcoholism in 1926, just as Hiss was beginning his superbly calculated rise out of the family muck to suave and well-tailored eminence in Roosevelt's State Department.

  • "Hiss, Chirp, Rattle, Click!"


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