bleat

Only one of the castrati lived to record: Allesandro Moreschi, who sang with a plaintive, eerily haunting bleat, on discs made in the Sistine Chapel between 1902 and 1904.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Trombones bleat, a tuba bellows, drums are the heart.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

Utter it audibly, and someone within earshot might bleat, “Ugh.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2024

On “Saturday Night Live,” Gilda Radner mocked Ms. Walters’ voice, which Vogue characterized as “a distinctive Boston bleat at once flat, hoarse and nasal.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022

Only the occasional bleat of the gull gave me a picture of that bird, for I had heard and seen them many times around the sea wall in Willemstad.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor

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

The New York media bleats endlessly about what makes for a “true Yankee.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

It bounded away through the high, dry grass, and she could hear the nasal bleats of greeting from its flock.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

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

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

For hours, the alarm on the teacher’s bedside monitor bleated.

From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2020

There was a collective tittering in the streetcar as Russell bleated his horn a few more times.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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 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

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

The neighborhoods that once bustled with traffic and pedestrians were like ghost towns shortly after sunrise, with a heavy silence blanketing the area except for the occasional bleating from a lone goat.

From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024

By the time we arrived at Teresita’s house, towing the bleating goat by a mecate, an old rope, tied in a sailor’s knot around its neck, the sun was completely out.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall