bleat

Example Sentences

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Utter it audibly, and someone within earshot might bleat, “Ugh.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2024

Around him in the fenced-in yard, four goats bleat and 18 turkeys and more than 20 chickens peck at the grass.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023

This is how Shiv, Kendall and Rome end up watching Connor bleat a forlorn cover of Marissa Nadler's "Famous Blue Raincoat" as Logan descends from on high to invade their musical bunker.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2023

On “Saturday Night Live,” Gilda Radner mocked Ms. Walters’ voice, which Vogue characterized as “a distinctive Boston bleat at once flat, hoarse and nasal.”

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2022

Geels released a shocked bleat and sprang back.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo