How to Use bleat in a Sentence

bleat

1 of 2 verb
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  • The labor union is always bleating about the management.
  • The four men smiled and chatted in the bleating Texas sun.
    — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Gobble, quack, and bleat your way to a close encounter with these tools.
    — John Kennedy, Popular Science, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Goats and sheep staying in the barn bleated, and horses neighed as the crowd of people grew.
    — David Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 23 July 2019
  • One of the tiniest goats bleated and scrambled to get out of its owner's grip.
    — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 26 July 2017
  • The wailing alarm had now been joined by a shrill, bleating second alarm sound.
    — Keith Sharon, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
  • State troopers said throughout the video, the deer makes grunting or bleating sounds.
    — oregonlive, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The synths are high-energy, all bleated out and exciting, but the hip-hop beat keeps things chill on the back end.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 5 May 2017
  • Joe Anderson still bleating on about Ross Barkley's move to Chelsea.
    — SI.com, 9 Jan. 2018
  • As the fawn bleated, the big bird held on to the back of the young deer, eventually driving it underwater.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Mr. Sheeran singing grimly and Lil Uzi Vert working the stage like a catwalk while bleating out his lyrics.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Those who bleat about starters not pitching deep into games are ignorant of how much baseball has changed in the past few years.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • After spending a few minutes in the sewer, bleats from a baby deer could be heard as the man emerged holding the tiny creature in his arms.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 2 June 2023
  • In a nearby field, a shepherd tended to about 100 loudly bleating sheep.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • The buck bleated several times but soon stopped struggling.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2020
  • So a documentary about her life, no doubt filled with concert footage of her 1970s bleating?
    — Amy Kaufmanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Punch surveys the bleating lowlifes ringed around him on the beach, cheering, laughing, waiting for the next act, but their whoops sound fake, their howls of laughter hollow.
    — Robert Coover, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
  • Woods expanded into fields full of sheep that bleated in pitches high and low—short like hiccups, long like pleas.
    — Anya Yurchyshyn, refinery29.com, 11 May 2018
  • Even those inside that didn’t come out must have heard the truck horns moaning, the air brakes bleating, the hymn of an industrial funeral.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
  • The psychic timber of our dear, ailing Log Lady (the late Catherine Coulson) bleated with alarm.
    — Jeff Jensen, PEOPLE.com, 22 May 2017
  • At first, some colleagues seem startled to hear her signature song’s bleating horns.
    — Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 24 May 2018
  • On the small farm that Alberto Barroso runs a few miles from his apartment, the sprightly stems of potatoes and onions peek through fresh soil; his hundreds of goats bleat into the clean air.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Some weeks later, a calf, stuck in the mud and bleating for help under a dim half moon, was mistaken for the spirit of the lost girl by a couple of local drunks, who fled the scene in terror.
    — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 31 Mar. 2017
  • But the days of Norm’s tenor bleating from your radio every morning are apparently all but over.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 21 June 2023
  • Between the 15th and 19th centuries, nuns were recorded bleating like sheep, barking like dogs and meowing.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2017
  • Between the 15th and 19th centuries, nuns were recorded bleating like sheep, barking like dogs and meowing.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2017
  • There have been at least 14 emergency alerts sent to cellphones over the past week, and those around the Olympic Park here received eight separate, bleating alerts on Wednesday alone.
    — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
  • At the moment, the entire herd is bleating and running frantically around their nearby pen.
    — Jennifer Goldstein, Marie Claire, 29 Nov. 2018
  • Chicken and the egg: was my form, my essence, preventing me from being active, or were my static days, the Florida heat bleating harshly from pre-dawn to post-dusk, the cause of my worthless body?
    — Lindsay Hunter, Longreads, 15 Aug. 2017
  • The zoo was inaugurated in 1875 on what was then a quiet patch on the outskirts of Buenos Aires but is now an urban zone of busy avenues with bleating buses near the animal cages.
    — Luis Andres Henao, The Seattle Times, 23 May 2017
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bleat

2 of 2 noun
  • Across the glade a chorus of bleats drifts from a crumbling hut, shaped from thatch and earth.
    — The Economist, 18 July 2019
  • He's been front-page for months, every bleat, blurt, yelp, and belch.
    — Author: Garrison Keillor, Alaska Dispatch News, 6 Aug. 2017
  • The 93rd Academy Awards ended not with a bang but a bleat.
    — Glenn Whipp Entertainment Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Not a sound from anywhere, save the occasional bleat from one of the Hansens' sheep.
    — Boris Fishman, Smithsonian, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Not a sound from anywhere, save the occasional bleat from one of the Hansens' sheep.
    — Boris Fishman, Smithsonian, 16 Aug. 2017
  • For every gunshot fired and a horn’s violent bleat, there is hope in the eyes of the last of the Last Poets.
    — Philly.com, 14 June 2018
  • Hungry fawns often make a soft bleat that has a begging tone to it.
    — Jarrod Spilger, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Nobody thinks much of the Cavs these days … not even the Cavs, who aren’t doing the usual bleat about lack of respect.
    — Mark Heisler, Orange County Register, 8 Apr. 2017
  • The Zoo’s popular Giant Panda Cam is one of the best ways to listen in for the chirps, honks, bleats, barks and squeals.
    — Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian, 10 Aug. 2019
  • And thanks to the generosity of some village residents, the sounds of those warning bleats from the trains that pass through will stop.
    — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 29 Aug. 2017
  • The alarm continued its steady bleat, the volume seeming to increase.
    — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
  • The whining of the wind, the whistle of a marmot and an occasional bleat from sheep somewhere in the distance are the only sounds.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2017
  • Kirby then issues five or six doe bleats, followed by six to eight tending grunts.
    — Jarrod Spilger, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The title comes from a baby deer’s bleat during mating season.
    — Megan Friedman, Country Living, 6 Nov. 2018
  • The gentle call of birds floated overhead, occasionally mixing with the goats’ bleats, as yogis laid out mats among the pygmies.
    — Emily Chappell, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2017
  • As Bryant scrupulously took notes on dance moves, and Davis practiced his bleat, some moments seemed sure to land differently, even though they were crafted years ago.
    — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2021
  • On a recent weekday morning, the shrill bleat of a drill unscrewing a wooden crate echoed over music playing from a small speaker in the building’s rotunda.
    — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
  • And lurking within, at the foot of the holy mountain known as Nanda Devi, lies an inviolable Shangri-la of golden grassland, silent but for the rumble of avalanches and the plaintive bleats of wild sheep.
    — National Geographic, 11 Apr. 2019
  • Hip-hop has been moving in this direction for the last few years, from Future’s purple opiate haze to Travis Scott’s head-in-the clouds bleats — styles that lend themselves easily to ambient bliss.
    — New York Times, 9 May 2018
  • Aside from some rhetorical bleats, Republicans are acquiescing as Trump makes foreign policy by and for his viscera.
    — George Will, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2019
  • The bleats have been long and loud in California since President Trump’s administration released its first proposed budget, one that won’t be finalized for several months.
    — Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 30 May 2017
  • In an unseen orchestra that bleats and blares, an urgent trombone chorus heralds every leap into banality.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Other songs featured hard-rock guitar solos or free-jazz horn bleats, neatly integrated into the arrangements and the overall presentation, which included a mix of live and prerecorded video.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2020
  • Across the glade a chorus of bleats drifts from a crumbling hut, shaped from thatch and earth.
    — The Economist, 18 July 2019
  • He's been front-page for months, every bleat, blurt, yelp, and belch.
    — Author: Garrison Keillor, Alaska Dispatch News, 6 Aug. 2017
  • The 93rd Academy Awards ended not with a bang but a bleat.
    — Glenn Whipp Entertainment Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Not a sound from anywhere, save the occasional bleat from one of the Hansens' sheep.
    — Boris Fishman, Smithsonian, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Not a sound from anywhere, save the occasional bleat from one of the Hansens' sheep.
    — Boris Fishman, Smithsonian, 16 Aug. 2017
  • For every gunshot fired and a horn’s violent bleat, there is hope in the eyes of the last of the Last Poets.
    — Philly.com, 14 June 2018
  • Hungry fawns often make a soft bleat that has a begging tone to it.
    — Jarrod Spilger, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2019

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