blat

Example Sentences

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The Sounders were jolted back into MLS play with an early ping and blat of the ball off the goal post and cross bar Saturday.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2022

Too, let us not forget the Metropolitans of 1910, whose victory was reported in this very blat on the 30th of June that year under the headline “Opera Ball Team Trounces Boston.”

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2015

Even as he spoke the Cleveland Symphony rumbled like a drain in difficulty and belched forth a stentorian blat of brass.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ear that flinches at the diesel blat of a bus might recoil as much from the clang-rattle-crash of the old trolley.

From Time Magazine Archive

Madge, who won’t be upstaged, unpacks her trombone and blows one blat like a big fart, and my hands fly to my ears.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari