blat
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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 ● May 7, 2022
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 ● Oct. 24, 2015
Their beefed-up blat can splatter normal television and radio reception.
From Time Magazine Archive
Conscious even then of his big voice, he liked to sneak up behind victims in the school corridors and blat a loud note into their ears.
From Time Magazine Archive
Madge, who won’t be upstaged, unpacks her trombone and blows one blat like a big fart, and my hands fly to my ears.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
He pulled over and blatted the siren once as he got out, stretched, kept his eyes on the kid.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2019
Silk merchants who hissed and booed, blatted and squealed.
From Time Magazine Archive
If he liked the old songs in their simple state, he was troubled to hear them blatted out in pseudo-swing as a substitute for new stuff.
From Time Magazine Archive
The crowd began gathering near the sentry boxes at Blair House at dusk, stood raptly as rush-hour traffic blatted past on Pennsylvania Avenue.
From Time Magazine Archive
Calves stretched their necks and blatted for their mothers, which kept up in turn a steady bawling for their strayed offspring.
From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine
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 ● Feb. 8, 2021
Not the 'what I had for brunch' blatting.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2016
No fewer than seven Corvettes were in the 14-car field, six of them new 1963 Sting Rays, their powerful V-8 engines blatting angrily under shark-nosed hoods.
From Time Magazine Archive
He knew the course, and his engine was tuned to a blatting, bellowing roar of controlled fury.
From Time Magazine Archive
They could hear sheep blatting in their pens.
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
