blat
Example Sentences
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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
Their beefed-up blat can splatter normal television and radio reception.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike blat of 'O. K., Chief!
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.