beep

Example Sentences

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At that point, sound effects beep to signal the start of a new game.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

"I sit in my lane and I'm frozen, totally petrified. I can't overtake and because you don't overtake, people start to beep at you and that drives me into more of a frenzy," she says.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025

Now the vehicles only beep when there is someone or an object behind them.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

The funkiest thing a “radioactive shrimp” would do—that is, if you put a radiation sensor over such a crustacean, says Pillai—is beep.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2025

Not wishing to call attention to himself, the agent gave the horn a brief beep, then drove right up to the pig, which snorted desultorily, refusing to move on.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols