toot
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“I think it might’ve been a little toot, might’ve been something else, something a little extra,” he joked during the interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
Why barricade Holgate for three blocks but leave it open a couple blocks farther inland, where Sound Transit’s trains toot their way through a dangerous crossing?
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
She told BBC Scotland she would love people to cheer her on, but asks, "don't toot the horn."
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2023
Watch our candid "Salon Talks" conversation about faith, forgiveness and failure, and why in real life, she promises that "I don't toot glitter."
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2023
I laugh, and say, “And you’re willing to wear silly shirts and toot horns and carry flags for ten miles?”
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
On Monday afternoon, sporadic vuvuzela toots and car horns could still be heard downtown, although unclear whether a holdover from the prior night's celebrations or in anticipation of the team's forthcoming arrival.
From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026
City Hall, which dates to the 16th century, toots out a cheerful jazz bugle call several times a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
The conductor would signal the engineer that passengers needed to disembark, and the engineer “would respond with two toots of the whistle,” he writes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
From the calls of merry market traders to the toots of check-out tills, there are many visuals and sounds that make up a high street in England.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2023
We play the piece again, and when the school heaters stop banging and all the toots and random blats come together, it sounds all right.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
"He's tooted that horn real hard... so to take a stance was surprising to me," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
Others simply tooted their horns and waved their flags.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
"Would you believe me if I told you I'm extremely tired?" he tooted on Sunday.
From Reuters ● Nov. 7, 2022
“That’s just how Big Wes would be. Wes never tooted his own horn,” Chenier said.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2021
Then, while lounging in the driver’s seat, he tooted and re-tooted the horn until Anne finally came to the front door.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
It’s time to start tooting your own horn at work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
“I don’t like tooting my horn,” he said, but he continued: “You don’t have to be that big to know what you are doing.”
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
People were driving around tooting their horns in cars displaying orange, white and green flags.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
Brian, a former non league footballer and salesman, said: "I'm getting people tooting their horns at me, saying 'lollipop man, TikTok' and it's brilliant."
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2023
With drums beating, horn tooting, Mary Toy squealing, and Papa and them in the Cadillac right behind us, the crowd pushed forward toward Cold Sassy’s new day dawnin’.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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