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
But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike blat of 'O. K., Chief!
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
A blat from the horn made Carla jump and turn to the car, now fully stopped just a little ahead of her.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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
Whistles shrieked, bells clanged, diesel engines blatted their air horns like dying cows.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said I: 'They hissed and booed, blatted and squealed like a barnyard filled with frightened cattle, geese and swine.
From Time Magazine Archive
A hundred yards from that gate, its horn blatted irritably at the car of the acting head of municipal police.
From The Pirates of Ersatz by Kelly Freas
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
No fewer than seven Corvettes were in the 14-car field, six of them new 1963 Sting Rays, their powerful V-8 engines blatting angrily under shark-nosed hoods.
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
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