Example Sentences

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Working with bio-acousticians who measure hearing in animals, she developed a soundtrack of pulses and beeps to play to anaesthetised hedgehogs from a rescue centre.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

My days are filled with the beeps and growls of bulldozers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025

“It’s not straightforward,” says David Clarke, a fisheries expert at Swansea University who was funded by EDF to monitor high-frequency beeps fired at tagged shad to see if they swam away.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

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

As much as I like saying beeps and boops, it is Journey’s phrase.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga