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
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
Suddenly came the frightened blat of Nelly's day-old calf.
From Time Magazine Archive
She makes a slide motion with her arms and blows a fake trombone blat through her lips.
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
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
The loudspeaker blatted five sets of code numbers, each from a different base across the ocean.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Midwest member got on the wire, blatted the news to all wirephoto points by asking the New York office: "What about pictures on Roosevelt at Casablanca?"
From Time Magazine Archive
A hundred yards from that gate, its horn blatted irritably at the car of the acting head of municipal police.
From The Pirates of Ersatz by Kelly Freas
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
Twenty-three minutes of tuneless blatting erupted from the trombonist, first of a dozen instrumentalists to play in sequence.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
And do you remember the deep blatting stroke of the great gong in the Joss House, and how its tone hung in the air so long?
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
