bleat
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Trombones bleat, a tuba bellows, drums are the heart.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
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
There are those cute rodents that scurry about and delightful little donut-rolling sheep that exist only to bleat at you as you zip by them on Torrent.
From The Verge ● Mar. 11, 2022
Geels released a shocked bleat and sprang back.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
A heavy quiet hangs over Theofilou's farm in the absence of the bleats from the sheep and the tinkle of their bells.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
The two delight in discovering each other’s cultural differences, even if the alien is occasionally bossy and annoying, say when Rocky bleats “Dirty! Dirty!” upon entering Grace’s astral man cave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
Sixty Nigerian dwarf goats are taking turns crashing their horns against wooden stalls while unleashing a cacophony of bleats, groans, and retching wails that make it nearly impossible to hold a conversation.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023
During all this, there are synthesizer fanfares befitting a vintage video game, along with some drums and low bleats for drive and the occasional unsettling addition of high-pitched noises.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
The cat must have sensed this general failing, for he now walked steadily beside the dogs, very close to his tottering old friend, and uttered plaintive worried bleats.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
The animals bleated from behind a wooden fence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2025
One of the 19 animals who survived bleated as Raptis grabbed its face to reveal the burns on its ear.
From Reuters ● Sep. 3, 2023
A few miles down the road, a chorus of cattle and sheep mooed and bleated as we talked to Andrew Robert Tudor Davies on the family farm.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2021
For hours, the alarm on the teacher’s bedside monitor bleated.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2020
I fed Milk and Nothing and the chickens, and they all bleated and brayed and clucked at me for more.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
The bleating trumpet on the following “Before I Knew” recalls Mark Isham’s work on the horn when he was in Van Morrison’s band in the early ’80s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Players started bleating, serenading James with sounds deserving of the G.O.A.T. — greatest of all time.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026
Sometimes at press conferences, we sound like bleating sheep.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2024
The neighborhoods that once bustled with traffic and pedestrians were like ghost towns shortly after sunrise, with a heavy silence blanketing the area except for the occasional bleating from a lone goat.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024
“Our people say that the chorus sounds like mmee-mmee-mmee, the bleating of a goat.”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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