toot
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If I may toot my own horn here, I don’t think I’ve slipped much.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
The morning after the ceremony, as they waved off guests who were returning to the mainland, the crew saluted the newlyweds with a toot of the horn.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024
Why barricade Holgate for three blocks but leave it open a couple blocks farther inland, where Sound Transit’s trains toot their way through a dangerous crossing?
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
Watch our candid "Salon Talks" conversation about faith, forgiveness and failure, and why in real life, she promises that "I don't toot glitter."
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2023
Just let them horns toot the first toot and I done gone.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
On Monday afternoon, sporadic vuvuzela toots and car horns could still be heard downtown, although unclear whether a holdover from the prior night's celebrations or in anticipation of the team's forthcoming arrival.
From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026
City Hall, which dates to the 16th century, toots out a cheerful jazz bugle call several times a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
The conductor would signal the engineer that passengers needed to disembark, and the engineer “would respond with two toots of the whistle,” he writes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
The new field of digital bioacoustics is machine learning to try decipher animal speak, including honeybee toots and quacks and woops.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 11, 2023
The wind blows the eucalyptus trees, a buoy clangs, a boat horn toots, Natalie drags her toes.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
"He's tooted that horn real hard... so to take a stance was surprising to me," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
Others simply tooted their horns and waved their flags.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
"We've hit 1,028,362 monthly active users across the network today," Rochko tooted - Mastodon's version of tweeting - on Monday.
From Reuters ● Nov. 7, 2022
“That’s just how Big Wes would be. Wes never tooted his own horn,” Chenier said.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2021
Then, while lounging in the driver’s seat, he tooted and re-tooted the horn until Anne finally came to the front door.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
It’s time to start tooting your own horn at work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
While walking the noisy, packed streets of the central city, with the engines of London Transport double-decker buses roaring, horns tooting and newspaper sellers shouting the headlines of the latest European crisis, he muses:
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2025
As well as the fireworks, the players could also hear car horns tooting and police sirens during the opening two sets.
From BBC ● May 31, 2025
“I don’t like tooting my horn,” he said, but he continued: “You don’t have to be that big to know what you are doing.”
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
With drums beating, horn tooting, Mary Toy squealing, and Papa and them in the Cadillac right behind us, the crowd pushed forward toward Cold Sassy’s new day dawnin’.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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