Example Sentences

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My days are filled with the beeps and growls of bulldozers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025

At a stoplight, if there is a car ahead of me that starts to move, and I don’t, my car beeps twice and signals me on the display.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

Adam did it many times, but the beeps continued.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025

The sounds of construction — the slow beeps of a truck in reverse, a pile driver pounding the hard earth — filled the air.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2024

A little later there’s the Dominion Observatory Official Time Signal: first a series of outer space beeps, then silence, then a long dash.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood