bleat
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Trombones bleat, a tuba bellows, drums are the heart.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
Rhapsodizing about condiments to a ship of starving workers, Ylfa may as well bleat, “Let them eat ketchup!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
At a recent rehearsal, despite clarinet squeaks and the occasional bleat of a rogue saxophone, almost every student was smiling, Sarah Diamond reports in The Times.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2022
Despite clarinet squeaks and the occasional bleat of a rogue saxophone, almost every student was smiling.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2022
Now I realized it was more of an irritated bleat.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
Like all the other animals, he expresses himself through bleats, grunts and hugely dynamic facial expressions.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 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
The two delight in discovering each other’s cultural differences, even if the alien is occasionally bossy and annoying, say when Rocky bleats “Dirty! Dirty!” upon entering Grace’s astral man cave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 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
Out in the fields, a sheep bleats in the pattering rain.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
The animals bleated from behind a wooden fence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2025
Ms Turner told the Northern Times it bleated out to her and fellow kayakers.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2023
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
The moment Ms. Stewart stopped petting him, he bleated deafeningly, leaving his pen to trail after her.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2015
I fed Milk and Nothing and the chickens, and they all bleated and brayed and clucked at me for more.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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
The air thrums with the din of destruction — giant excavators clanking against steel beams, trucks bleating out warning signals as they back into position, green organic material whooshing out of hoses onto finished sites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025
Sometimes at press conferences, we sound like bleating sheep.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2024
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
It must have been bleating all along, only we couldn’t hear it before.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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