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How can you use “hiss” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Unisex tweeds, seminars on family values, reminiscences of Alger Hiss, sherry all round.
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.
For light on the psychological aspects of the Chambers-Hiss story, the best sources remain Allen Weinstein's authoritative Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case (1978) and Chambers himself, who, in Witness , is far more revealing about himself than Tanenhaus chooses to be.
He describes himself as being ambushed by cigar-chomping capitalists who hiss at him so loudly that he has to yell to be heard.
At their last meeting, as Chambers was preparing to flee the party, he begged Hiss to join him, but the supercool Hiss seemed to admire just what horrified Chambers in Soviet behavior--Stalin "played for keeps," as he put it--and his wife, Priscilla, termed Chambers' agonized apostasy "mental masturbation."
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