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baa

[ba, bah] / bæ, bɑ /


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All baa myself: Is this Britain's loneliest sheep?

From BBC Nov. 2, 2023

Bleat, baa, and ragdoll your way through the world getting up to all kinds of goat-flavored shenanigans.

From The Verge Aug. 23, 2022

He’s all baa and no humbug in the new animated adventure “Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 28, 2021

The success of Rams changed everything for him, says Hákonarson, who managed to get the audience for its Cannes premiere to baa like sheep en masse.

From The Guardian May 22, 2020

The goat can’t baa, Because his lips Are gripping the pipe — A funny sight for The chickens, Who stay clear.

From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto

In their tongue B.A.A.S. would spell revolting baas, "master," "boss."

From Time Magazine Archive

Said a rival: "Lady Caroline baas like a little sheep."

From Time Magazine Archive

In Chicago this week, amid bellows, oinks, neighs and baas, with the skirl of a bagpipe band, exuberant farmers gathered for the 42nd International Livestock Exposition.

From Time Magazine Archive

“The baas will be with you shortly,” he said.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

The word baas means “move” in Afrikaans, but it is customarily reserved for cattle.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

That followed a French operetta duet that had Felicity Lott making turkey noises while Maltman baaed like a sheep.

From The Guardian Nov. 30, 2012

If Dolly the cloned sheep had been able to talk, would she have chased those Scottish scientists into their lab and baaed for explanations?

From Salon Jun. 6, 2012

Finding herself separated from her companions, she wanted to rejoin them, and the more Gudbrand tugged at her tether, the more piteously she baaed.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 by Various

A watchful ram baaed awesomely as it rose.

From The Wrong Woman by Charles D. Stewart

"Oh, if I could only find a way to get over into your yard," baaed Billy to Nannie.

From Billy Whiskers' Adventures by Paul Hawthorne

As he passionately delivers the final choruses, two actors in sheep hats pop up and sing along with him, baaing the titular lyrics to big audience laughs.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2021

At the Joneslan Farm, on a dirt road with views of mountains, the goats erupt into baaing and crowd the fences inside the barn to inspect anyone who walks in as they munch on hay.

From Seattle Times Jul. 20, 2021

On the lawn in front of Isabella Rossellini’s house, an elegant barn-to-home conversion in a chicly rural corner of Long Island, a few of them stood around baaing, waiting for their person to emerge.

From New York Times Oct. 11, 2020

Tourists may soon see baaing sheep at the Eiffel Tower.

From Washington Post Apr. 15, 2013

We would hear their car­avans approaching our neighborhood, the mewling of their sheep, the baaing of their goats, the jingle of bells around their camels’ necks.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini




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