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
The ear that flinches at the diesel blat of a bus might recoil as much from the clang-rattle-crash of the old trolley.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike blat of 'O. K., Chief!
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
Whistles shrieked, bells clanged, diesel engines blatted their air horns like dying cows.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oboe outbursts blatted blithely, beating drums too, bellowed near.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said I: 'They hissed and booed, blatted and squealed like a barnyard filled with frightened cattle, geese and swine.
From Time Magazine Archive
The goats did not follow as he expected, but stood around the trailer and blatted.
From Casey Ryan by B. M. Bower
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
Electronic racket raisers, says the colonel, "will project high-intensity, variable-pitch sounds, blatting, shrieking noises, etc., in such volume that they will be almost intolerable to the human ear."
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty-three minutes of tuneless blatting erupted from the trombonist, first of a dozen instrumentalists to play in sequence.
From Time Magazine Archive
But a blatting voice butted in, and it was not royalty.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
