bleat
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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
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
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
And then it staggered and limped awkwardly over to Snarler, and it let out a high-pitched bleat as if it were in pain.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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
A French visitor — a conservationist for an NGO and a symbolic representative of the European Union — bleats a few conciliating sentiments but is scornfully shut down.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
The New York media bleats endlessly about what makes for a “true Yankee.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
Above the wind tumbled the voices of animals: yips and barks, growls, bleats, caterwauls and roars.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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
The moment Ms. Stewart stopped petting him, he bleated deafeningly, leaving his pen to trail after her.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2015
They wrestled with a pregnant ewe that bleated and tried to jerk her manure-stained hind legs from their hands.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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
In one number, Swinton, who goes glossy-eyed to show the cracks in her high-fashion veneer, poses in a transparent rain slicker while bleating raw, yowling noises that blend with the despairing strings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
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
Silence fell again, except for bleating and the click-click of the goat’s hooves against the floor.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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