beep
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At that point, sound effects beep to signal the start of a new game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
Now the vehicles only beep when there is someone or an object behind them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 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
Despite our many requests, the Florida Department of Corrections has not gotten him a hearing aid that doesn’t beep loudly in his ears, so he prefers to stay in his own, soundless world.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025
How could a simple beep be so frustrating?
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
Love’s monologue is interrupted momentarily by beeps from his car and he says, “I’m in my new McLaren and it’s just real touch-and-go.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Tina Tallon, a professor of artificial intelligence and music composition at The Ohio State University, explains that a "click track" features clicks or beeps such as a metronome, or other cues to capture rhythm.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
The beeps and bells of the slot machines echo down the Strip - a blur of glittering lights, and performers who never break character.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
We've moved about two blocks uptown when we hear a chorus of beeps and buzzes.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
The car braked sharply, an internal alarm beeped, and the driver took the wheel.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
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
The craft beeped awake, arched its hawklike shoulders, and whined off into the valley.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
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
I pretended my phone beeped, checked it, put it on the table.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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
Waymo charging stations have caused turmoil in a Santa Monica neighborhood, with some residents calling the round-the-clock beeping and humming of autonomous vehicles a nuisance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
The beeping of the monitor jumped around erratically — now he wasn’t the only one who could hear my heart misbehave.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
