toot
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Wait till the latter toot off their tops, as each of the 100 new puppets is full of surprises.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
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
Not to toot my—our—own horn, but the Quickfire-Lightning pitcher/catcher combo is one of our team’s secret weapons.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
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 new field of digital bioacoustics is machine learning to try decipher animal speak, including honeybee toots and quacks and woops.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 11, 2023
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
Contain your aggression to staring into its eyes and hurling toots and taunts.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
"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
"We've hit 1,028,362 monthly active users across the network today," Rochko tooted - Mastodon's version of tweeting - on Monday.
From Reuters ● Nov. 7, 2022
Faculty tooted horns and held signs that said "White is too tight," a reference to Chancellor Timothy P. White.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2015
A bell runged and a whistle tooted and if you’d-a sneezed, you’d-a missed the whole thing.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
It’s time to start tooting your own horn at work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Now, if y'all don't know me, it'd be like I'm sitting here tooting my own horn, and why wouldn't I say that's about my own album?
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2024
“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
Following Sonko’s release Thursday night, Dakar was thronged with thousands of people singing and dancing as convoys of supporters drove around tooting horns and young people piled onto motorbikes and trucks.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
Madge and I do our trick or treat duet, singing and tooting in tune.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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