beep

Example Sentences

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"I sit in my lane and I'm frozen, totally petrified. I can't overtake and because you don't overtake, people start to beep at you and that drives me into more of a frenzy," she says.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025

While hiking in a forest in the Mount Shasta area with a metal detector, browsing over rocks and dirt, his machine began to beep.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

Voices echo through the vast, concrete space and a cacophony of drills and electric lifts beep, buzz and blare.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2025

The funkiest thing a “radioactive shrimp” would do—that is, if you put a radiation sensor over such a crustacean, says Pillai—is beep.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2025

We’re heading down to the dining hall for 18:30— Dinner when Gale’s communicuff begins to beep.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins