Examples of sibilant

• On the other hand, word-final fricative and affricate ' sibilants ', which are also always voiceless before pause, assimilate in voice both to following word-initial consonants and to vowels.

• The palatal glide is incorrectly placed in the same column as the sibilants, and the postalveolar sibilant is listed separately.

• The exact pronunciation of the three sibilants may vary, but they are distinct phonemes.

• A particular subset of fricatives are the sibilants.

• There are a large number of types of postalveolar sounds, especially among the sibilants.

• The consonants are sibilants, a variety of fricative.

• Fricatives at coronal (front of tongue) places of articulation are usually, though not always, sibilants.

• A similar effect to high vowel deletion can be observed with sibilants.