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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

The morning after the ceremony, as they waved off guests who were returning to the mainland, the crew saluted the newlyweds with a toot of the horn.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024

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

"Not everything is perfect rainbows and unicorns, and I don't toot glitter."

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2023

Just let them horns toot the first toot and I done gone.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

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

I can still hear the whistle—two toots for French’s, three for Van Camp’s—and she and Chizu would be out of bed in the middle of the night, heading for the cannery.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

"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

The Times tooted its own considerable horn about the armada of kayaks and rowboats it launched to deliver the newspapers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

"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

By way of an adios, Joe tooted his horn and waved gaily at the sheriff and the two Forest Service personnel, then led his cow up the road at a brisk trot.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

It’s time to start tooting your own horn at work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

While walking the noisy, packed streets of the central city, with the engines of London Transport double-decker buses roaring, horns tooting and newspaper sellers shouting the headlines of the latest European crisis, he muses:

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2025

“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

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