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The following discusses minor spoilers from "The Sheep Detectives," but don't worry — it doesn't include one bleat about who the killer is.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

This pageant of puppetry includes a flutter of butterflies, a goat with a plaintive bleat, a menagerie of wild animals and, at one point, a school of glowing fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025

Around him in the fenced-in yard, four goats bleat and 18 turkeys and more than 20 chickens peck at the grass.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

There are those cute rodents that scurry about and delightful little donut-rolling sheep that exist only to bleat at you as you zip by them on Torrent.

From The Verge ● Mar. 11, 2022

Zvezda lay next to her with his head on her leg, and when he saw her look at him, he offered a gentle bleat.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

Like all the other animals, he expresses himself through bleats, grunts and hugely dynamic facial expressions - which is part of his global appeal.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

A heavy quiet hangs over Theofilou's farm in the absence of the bleats from the sheep and the tinkle of their bells.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

Sixty Nigerian dwarf goats are taking turns crashing their horns against wooden stalls while unleashing a cacophony of bleats, groans, and retching wails that make it nearly impossible to hold a conversation.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023

One of the saddest moments in series finale "With Open Eyes" is when Kendall, on the verge of losing the board vote, bleats, "I'm the eldest boy."

From Salon ● May 29, 2023

Distant horns honked—reassuring bleats that the men were still being held back.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

The animals bleated from behind a wooden fence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2025

One of the 19 animals who survived bleated as Raptis grabbed its face to reveal the burns on its ear.

From Reuters ● Sep. 3, 2023

“It is not luxurious,” he cautioned visitors last week, before driving them down a dirt road to the farm, where sunlight squinted through the trees, baby goats bleated and turkeys bobbed in the shade.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022

A few miles down the road, a chorus of cattle and sheep mooed and bleated as we talked to Andrew Robert Tudor Davies on the family farm.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2021

“Line of work, line of work!” bleated the captain.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

The bleating trumpet on the following “Before I Knew” recalls Mark Isham’s work on the horn when he was in Van Morrison’s band in the early ’80s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Players started bleating, serenading James with sounds deserving of the G.O.A.T. — greatest of all time.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026

The stock market that came in like a roaring lion at the start of the 1920s went out like a bleating lamb at decade’s end.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025

At the top, a spacious bungalow stands next to a large shed, full of bleating sheep smothering the strains of pop music from a radio.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2024

As soon as she was halfway down the road to the house, he started bleating as loudly as she’d ever heard him bleat.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack