blat
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The Sounders were jolted back into MLS play with an early ping and blat of the ball off the goal post and cross bar Saturday.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2022
Too, let us not forget the Metropolitans of 1910, whose victory was reported in this very blat on the 30th of June that year under the headline “Opera Ball Team Trounces Boston.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2015
Suddenly came the frightened blat of Nelly's day-old calf.
From Time Magazine Archive
Conscious even then of his big voice, he liked to sneak up behind victims in the school corridors and blat a loud note into their ears.
From Time Magazine Archive
Madge, who won’t be upstaged, unpacks her trombone and blows one blat like a big fart, and my hands fly to my ears.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
He pulled over and blatted the siren once as he got out, stretched, kept his eyes on the kid.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2019
Oboe outbursts blatted blithely, beating drums too, bellowed near.
From Time Magazine Archive
Silk merchants who hissed and booed, blatted and squealed.
From Time Magazine Archive
If he liked the old songs in their simple state, he was troubled to hear them blatted out in pseudo-swing as a substitute for new stuff.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes, sir, I would resent having my business blatted out before a whole staff of subordinates!
From Alex the Great by Arthur William Brown
In one early poem, he asked: “What definition of beauty can exclude / The MV Agusta racing 500-3, / From the land of Donatello, with blatting megaphones?”
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2021
Not the 'what I had for brunch' blatting.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2016
He knew the course, and his engine was tuned to a blatting, bellowing roar of controlled fury.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty-three minutes of tuneless blatting erupted from the trombonist, first of a dozen instrumentalists to play in sequence.
From Time Magazine Archive
And do you remember the deep blatting stroke of the great gong in the Joss House, and how its tone hung in the air so long?
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
