bleat
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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
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
Utter it audibly, and someone within earshot might bleat, “Ugh.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2024
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
The goat stopped pacing, letting out a little 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.
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
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
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
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 loud, sour-sounding horn bleated, piercing through the noise of the crowd, whose cries coalesced into an accusatory chant: “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 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
When she looked back at him, he bleated loudly.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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
With his inane bleating on television about taking over the world, Graham sounded unhinged.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026
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
“All is not hopeless if we stop acting like bleating sheep.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
The dull, rhythmic tramp of the soldiers’ boots formed the background to Goldstein’s bleating voice.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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