beep
Example Sentences
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Every now and then, my watch would beep to signal that another mile had passed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
Voices echo through the vast, concrete space and a cacophony of drills and electric lifts beep, buzz and blare.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 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
Despite our many requests, the Florida Department of Corrections has not gotten him a hearing aid that doesn’t beep loudly in his ears, so he prefers to stay in his own, soundless world.
From Salon • Aug. 17, 2025
If he stepped so much as three inches past our front door, a signal would beep at the sheriff’s station and they’d come after him again.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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