Some angry opera-goers booed, hissed and waved programmes aloft to show their displeasure.

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My mother hissed at me to walk quickly and avoid eye contact.

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And our interest expires long before the alien has hissed its last.

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They needed to sit down together, no matter how stuffy it got in the living room, no matter how loudly the radiators hissed and banged, and take turns speaking their minds.

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The iguana opened his jaws and hissed at him.

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My villains are hissed at.

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The gas-powered space heater hissed.

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