bleat
Example Sentences
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The following discusses minor spoilers from "The Sheep Detectives," but don't worry — it doesn't include one bleat about who the killer is.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
This pageant of puppetry includes a flutter of butterflies, a goat with a plaintive bleat, a menagerie of wild animals and, at one point, a school of glowing fish.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025
Around him in the fenced-in yard, four goats bleat and 18 turkeys and more than 20 chickens peck at the grass.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023
On “Saturday Night Live,” Gilda Radner mocked Ms. Walters’ voice, which Vogue characterized as “a distinctive Boston bleat at once flat, hoarse and nasal.”
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2022
Geels released a shocked bleat and sprang back.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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