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 • 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
Despite a glittering new job offer�deputy manager of Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, a party blat deep in Khrushchev's virgin lands�Aleksei decided to hang around.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Their beefed-up blat can splatter normal television and radio reception.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.