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

This pageant of puppetry includes a flutter of butterflies, a goat with a plaintive bleat, a menagerie of wild animals and, at one point, a school of glowing fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 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

He chattered, a cross between his dainty meow and a goat’s bleat, usually reserved for when he’s spotted a bird through the sliding glass door.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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

As if on cue, Carmine bleats in my lap.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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

Ma was still crying with happiness, the goats bleated, chickens crowed and clucked, and neighbors began gathering to share the joy.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins

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

Those juxtaposed scenes of bleating livestock and skinned carcasses still leave an impression, but they’re just one strand in a tapestry of threads, none of them given more importance than the others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2025

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

The thin and stupefied bleating of automobile horns.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr