bleat
Example Sentences
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Trombones bleat, a tuba bellows, drums are the heart.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 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
The 93rd Academy Awards ended not with a bang but a bleat.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2021
Next morning as I finished a late breakfast served to me in my suite in Shusgis’ mansion the house-phone emitted a polite bleat.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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