baa
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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
They will bleat and baa and maybe even butt heads.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2017
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
No one was calling me baas and master any longer.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
“My baas has run out of petrol,” I said.
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
When we opened the door of the barn the horses neighed, the cows lowed, and the sheep baaed.
From The Land of the Long Night by Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)
"Fellows, hurry your bones and see who is here," baaed Billy to Stubby and Button.
From Billy Whiskers' Adventures by Hawthorne, Paul
While he ate the meat, Button 44helped himself to fried chicken and Billy came over and baaed to him not to be so greedy but to throw him down some lettuce.
From Billy Whiskers' Adventures by Hawthorne, Paul
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
We had to stop twice while herds of sheep, baaing and clanging their way down from their summer pastures to winter ones, engulfed our car for several minutes.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2018
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
