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sifflement in English:

1. whiz


My roommate is a real computer whiz.

English word "sifflement"(whiz) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Mrs. Leary's Cow A Legend of Ch...
Fiches du livre - "Roy Blakeley, Lost, Strayed or ...
Fiches du livre - "The Norsk Nightingale Being the...
Fiches du livre - "Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol....
Fiches du livre - "Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol....

2. whistling


He was whistling a tune.
He walked down the street whistling cheerfully.
The kettle is whistling on the stove.
He sauntered through the park whistling a tune he'd learned in his youth.
The boomerang hurtled whistling through the air.
Imogen of the Internet can connect to dial-up BBSes by whistling into a funnel attached to a phone line.
My sister was whistling merrily.

English word "sifflement"(whistling) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Handyman" (Frank Banta)
Fiches du livre - "The Moons of Mars" (Dean Evans)
Fiches du livre - "Phil May's Gutter-Snipes" (Phil...
Fiches du livre - "Blessed Are the Meek" (G.C. Edm...
Fiches du livre - "Sam's Ghost Deep Waters, Part 4...

3. hiss


There was a hiss of steam.
It was smelly and very noisy because the occupants of these cages were all squeaking, squawking, jabbering, or hissing.
We heard the loud hiss of escaping gas.
The snake gave an angry hiss.
The snake hissed at the bear.
It's possible that your cat is hissing at you because he feels threatened by a neighborhood cat...
“Get the door!” Aunt Petunia hissed at Harry
Did you hear the snake’s hiss?
The sound coming from him was more a hiss than any true word.
... would turn around and hiss at you.

English word "sifflement"(hiss) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Child Life in Prose" (Various)
Fiches du livre - "Fresh Air Fiend" (Kris Neville)
Fiches du livre - "Adventures on the Roof of the W...
Fiches du livre - "CAW! CAW! The Chronicle of Crow...
Fiches du livre - "Punch, or the London Charivari,...

4. wheeze


and much more likely to get a wheeze or actually have asthma through their childhood.
The effort of climbing up the five floors made the old man wheeze.

English word "sifflement"(wheeze) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "It’s like this, cat" (Emily Nev...
Fiches du livre - "Ballad of the Lost Hare" (Marga...
Fiches du livre - "Love Letters of a Rookie to Jul...
Fiches du livre - "April Fools A farce in one act ...
Fiches du livre - "The Donkey, the Elephant, and t...