blat

Example Sentences

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The Sounders were jolted back into MLS play with an early ping and blat of the ball off the goal post and cross bar Saturday.

From Seattle Times

In one early poem, he asked: “What definition of beauty can exclude / The MV Agusta racing 500-3, / From the land of Donatello, with blatting megaphones?”

From New York Times

Not the 'what I had for brunch' blatting.

From New York Times

Too, let us not forget the Metropolitans of 1910, whose victory was reported in this very blat on the 30th of June that year under the headline “Opera Ball Team Trounces Boston.”

From New York Times

Joey D’Ambrosio, on saxophone, blats his simple line on repeat as if he’s only this moment learned to play.

From The New Yorker