bleat
Example Sentences
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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
Despite clarinet squeaks and the occasional bleat of a rogue saxophone, almost every student was smiling.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 18, 2022
Basel, Muhammad, and I were speechless until the baby goat made its first tiny bleat.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
