bleat
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This pageant of puppetry includes a flutter of butterflies, a goat with a plaintive bleat, a menagerie of wild animals and, at one point, a school of glowing fish.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025
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
He chattered, a cross between his dainty meow and a goat’s bleat, usually reserved for when he’s spotted a bird through the sliding glass door.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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