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She added: “I promise if the apocalypse actually comes you can still beep me.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

At that point, sound effects beep to signal the start of a new game.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 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

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

“Mom,” I said after the beep, “it’s me. Listen, I need you to do something. It’s important. As soon as you get this message, call me at this number.”

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

Mygal’s phone beeps with the all-clear at 8:02 a.m.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

At a stoplight, if there is a car ahead of me that starts to move, and I don’t, my car beeps twice and signals me on the display.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

Instead, he runs a scanner over the hill’s surface until it beeps.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

Machines beeped and whirred as my husband laid on the hospital bed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

The craft beeped awake, arched its hawklike shoulders, and whined off into the valley.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024

Jeannine Ursell, from North Ferriby, East Yorkshire, says she gets beeped at and shouted at by people in cars and vans.

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024

There were only five minutes left before the end of school— five minutes until I could get back to Rachel and hear her explanation—when the intercom in Mr. Berlin’s physics class beeped.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

The sets have too many doors, the scenes have a delirious number of extras and the actors yell their lines over the distracting clatter of crackling fireplaces, beeping machines and ticking clocks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

For hospital patients, the incessant beeping and buzzing of alarms from monitors, pumps and other devices can make sleep almost impossible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

At first Aneesa, 25, thought the van driver was beeping because of a problem with traffic, but was left shocked when she realised he was targeting her and her younger sister.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 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

There's always a machine beeping, doors clunking shut, carts and stretchers rolling around.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi