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
Suddenly came the frightened blat of Nelly's day-old calf.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their beefed-up blat can splatter normal television and radio reception.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He pulled over and blatted the siren once as he got out, stretched, kept his eyes on the kid.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2019
If he liked the old songs in their simple state, he was troubled to hear them blatted out in pseudo-swing as a substitute for new stuff.
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
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
Billy Bumps raised his head, shook his venerable beard, and blatted at the cobbler.
From The Corner House Girls at School by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
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
With this first real chance to cheer, a horde of the delegates actually staged an honest demonstration, marching, blatting, screaming.
From Time Magazine Archive
He knew the course, and his engine was tuned to a blatting, bellowing roar of controlled fury.
From Time Magazine Archive
I could hear it blatting and racing around in the cow- pen, so starved it could hardly wait.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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