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
Suddenly came the frightened blat of Nelly's day-old calf.
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
The loudspeaker blatted five sets of code numbers, each from a different base across the ocean.
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
Colonel Jimmy, confound him, blatted right along, apologising to me for playing "better than he knew how" and all that sort of rot.
From Fore! by Charles Emmett Van Loan
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
With this first real chance to cheer, a horde of the delegates actually staged an honest demonstration, marching, blatting, screaming.
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
