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
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
Their beefed-up blat can splatter normal television and radio reception.
From Time Magazine Archive
She makes a slide motion with her arms and blows a fake trombone blat through her lips.
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
The crowd began gathering near the sentry boxes at Blair House at dusk, stood raptly as rush-hour traffic blatted past on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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
Whistles shrieked, bells clanged, diesel engines blatted their air horns like dying cows.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Baaa!" blatted the little calf, rolling its eyes until they showed the whites.
From Bat Wing Bowles by Dane Coolidge
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
Electronic racket raisers, says the colonel, "will project high-intensity, variable-pitch sounds, blatting, shrieking noises, etc., in such volume that they will be almost intolerable to the human ear."
From Time Magazine Archive
With this first real chance to cheer, a horde of the delegates actually staged an honest demonstration, marching, blatting, screaming.
From Time Magazine Archive
They could hear sheep blatting in their pens.
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
