beep
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And, I promise, if the apocalypse actually comes, you can still beep me.”
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2026
She added: “I promise if the apocalypse actually comes you can still beep me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
When she heard the beep to start, Vonn dug her pink ski poles into the snow and set off on a run that already ranked as one of the most audacious in Olympic history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
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
He hears the familiar beep of his mother’s car, spots it pulling into the parking lot.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
There is a danger, however, that Lego’s light touch might backfire, and parents won’t be thrilled about paying premium prices for a toy that essentially has a few extra beeps and boops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
My days are filled with the beeps and growls of bulldozers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
No cries or gurgles, the unnerving silence in the room is only broken by the high-pitched beeps of a pulse rate monitor.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
The sounds of construction — the slow beeps of a truck in reverse, a pile driver pounding the hard earth — filled the air.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
She presses her key, and her car beeps twice.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
Shortly afterwards, mobile phones beeped in unison as a missile alert came in and the wail of sirens started up.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
It beeped as Bach and others in his module repeatedly alerted deputies that the insulin pump was empty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024
Monitors beeped; Shakira played on the sound system.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2023
But all she could do was lie motionless, surrounded by strange machinery which continually beeped and whirred.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2022
He screamed even louder, but she kept him there until the thermometer beeped.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
"There was just this incessant beeping," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
The beaches are empty, and he can concentrate on the beeping in his bulbous yellow headphones, which grows louder as the coil gets closer to metal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
In the days and weeks after, she struggled to sleep and was plagued by a beeping noise in her bedroom at night, that was neither her phone nor the baby monitor.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2026
The low hum of cars passing and horns beeping in the distance gives me a sense of safety; I’m never alone.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026
I waited to see if someone else was coming, someone who could help me, but what I heard next was the beeping of a disconnected line.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
