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baa

[ba, bah] / bæ, bɑ /


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All baa myself: Is this Britain's loneliest sheep?

From BBC Nov. 2, 2023

Bleat, baa, and ragdoll your way through the world getting up to all kinds of goat-flavored shenanigans.

From The Verge Aug. 23, 2022

He’s all baa and no humbug in the new animated adventure “Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 28, 2021

They will bleat and baa and maybe even butt heads.

From New York Times Aug. 27, 2017

The goat can’t baa, Because his lips Are gripping the pipe — A funny sight for The chickens, Who stay clear.

From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto

Said a rival: "Lady Caroline baas like a little sheep."

From Time Magazine Archive

In their tongue B.A.A.S. would spell revolting baas, "master," "boss."

From Time Magazine Archive

In Chicago this week, amid bellows, oinks, neighs and baas, with the skirl of a bagpipe band, exuberant farmers gathered for the 42nd International Livestock Exposition.

From Time Magazine Archive

No one was calling me baas and master any longer.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

“The baas says he can’t see you today,” he said, removing a fancy overcoat from a nail behind the door.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

That followed a French operetta duet that had Felicity Lott making turkey noises while Maltman baaed like a sheep.

From The Guardian Nov. 30, 2012

If Dolly the cloned sheep had been able to talk, would she have chased those Scottish scientists into their lab and baaed for explanations?

From Salon Jun. 6, 2012

When we opened the door of the barn the horses neighed, the cows lowed, and the sheep baaed.

From The Land of the Long Night by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

"The same to you and yours!" baaed Billy as he, his family and friends filed out the gate and started on a run toward their old home in Fon du Lac, Wisconsin.

From Billy Whiskers' Adventures by Paul Hawthorne

"She will know me," replied Agnes; "I am certain she will know me;"—and the delightful girl spoke with an energy that was baaed upon the confidence of that love which subsisted between them.

From Jane Sinclair; Or, The Fawn Of Springvale The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

As he passionately delivers the final choruses, two actors in sheep hats pop up and sing along with him, baaing the titular lyrics to big audience laughs.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2021

At the Joneslan Farm, on a dirt road with views of mountains, the goats erupt into baaing and crowd the fences inside the barn to inspect anyone who walks in as they munch on hay.

From Seattle Times Jul. 20, 2021

On the lawn in front of Isabella Rossellini’s house, an elegant barn-to-home conversion in a chicly rural corner of Long Island, a few of them stood around baaing, waiting for their person to emerge.

From New York Times Oct. 11, 2020

We had to stop twice while herds of sheep, baaing and clanging their way down from their summer pastures to winter ones, engulfed our car for several minutes.

From Washington Post Mar. 1, 2018

But before long the baaing of sheep drowned them all out.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff




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