beep
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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
Now the vehicles only beep when there is someone or an object behind them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 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
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
Mercifully, a beep rang out from above, allowing me to scamper off to biology class.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
The registers hum with a steady din of beeps and automated “please begin scanning” messages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
My days are filled with the beeps and growls of bulldozers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
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
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
The low hum and faint beeps of controls keep a steady rhythm.
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
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
Another fortnight after that, Tetyana's phone beeped with a message: Sasha was at a Special School in Perevalsk, she read, and his mum could call to talk to him.
From BBC ● May 30, 2023
As I grabbed the root beer, the door beeped and this guy my parents knew came in.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
"There was just this incessant beeping," she said.
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
"Intelligent Speed Assistance", as it's known, may feel like a nuisance, beeping away when you are at the wheel.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
Potter pointed out that several months ago the Waymo vehicles reduced the volume of its beeping, when the vehicles drive in reverse, when in the lots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
The tree transformed into my truck, full of merchandise—piles of blouses and skirts and shoes, and I bounced on the limb, beeping and roaring my engine to far- off places like Quito and Colombia.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
