How To Use Bleat In A Sentence
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Here and there a mother turned her head to call back anxiously for the bleating lambkin lost behind the white curtain; and, dim and grotesque, the awkward strayling would come gamboling into sight.
Virginia: the Old Dominion
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Well, errm, not precisely, but we need to stand up to it and create a multipolar world, not to be confused with multilateralism, which is a way of using up large amounts of money to bleat with great self-satisfaction, achieving little.
There is never any point to appeasement
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I think she must be insecure or something, as in her footage she bleats about having ‘too many faults’ when the cameras follow her into the change room.
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The valley is quiet and serene, and right now is bursting with the energy and exuberance of spring - the trees are budding, the daffodils bobbing, the birds are busy, the lambs are bleating and there are calves suckling.
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Happy Belated I was about to type in 'bleated' which actually would suit for the daughter of a goat judge, wouldn't it?
Once in a Blue Moon
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The throng surrounding them shouted affirming hallelujahs and amens, flapping and singing, rattling their tambourines and bleating their horns.
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As someone who's always found Bob Dylan amusing and kind of absurd, I guffawed (at 3 a.m.; scared the opossums) at Idle's startling transformation into ol 'Uncle Bobby, strummin' and harpin 'and bleatin' nearly incomprehensibly about Brian's theme of "Individuals.
Gregory Weinkauf: Not the Messiah: Monty Python Strikes Again!
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The only bleat was City's failure to turn such superiority into goals.
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Other utilized techniques were scent stations using cougar urine, catnip, or other scents, and recorded sounds such as cougar screams, predator calls, and deer bleats.
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They have been spoonfed lies and distortions about the British Empire, so that they bleat about how ashamed they are of it, forgetting that for all its faults it gave parliamentary democracy to the world (or tried to), and abolished excesses such as suttee and thuggee.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Some tabloid editors bleat that anybody in the public eye deserves none.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now, that is spiritual guidance, you fusty old Scottish cardinals bleating on about the evils of fornication and alienating everyone under 100.
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They watched as the goat struggled to its feet and limped away, bleating in protest at this unexpected treatment.
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He nodded his head, and the ram bleated out a cry before storming off towards Diana.
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He coughed, sneezed, and barked simultaneously -- bleated in one breath, and cackled in the next -- sputteringly shrieked, and chatteringly squealed, with a bass of suffocated roars.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
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The signature brow beating and bleating dirges still abound, but there's an increased focus on songwriting rather than the moping first-person exposition that typified their first few records.
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The lane petered out to track, the rain increased to torrential and dozens of lambs crowded under thorn trees, bleating.
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How many times have we heard the supermarkets bleating on about ‘it is customer demand’ when challenged about their imports of meat, poultry, milk and other produce that they could have bought local?
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He should tell the unions to stop bleating about foreign workers - even if they dress their warnings with expressions of concern - and worry instead about how they can deliver greater productivity from their members.
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It is so rural that from the platform you can hear the bleating of sheep.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, I bleated at it like an aging nanny goat.
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To lure them from the dense woody thickets scattered through the arid open savannas, he used the ultimate bait: the ‘plaintive bleat of a wounded baby buffalo.’
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How long b4 they bleat about human rights & we have to take them?
The Sun
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He ignored the sheep's little bleats of protest and only focused on which sheep his arrow hit.
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So the younglings fell to sporting with their new friends, and for a little forgat both goats and golden lady; but the goats drew nigh, and stood about them bleating, nor durst they run at the rabbits to butt them, because of Birdalone and the little ones.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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YOU can't bleat a pygmy goat.
The Sun
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Reality: "My, ain't you a big fat pain in the butt?" bleated Agnes, her grating, honking baritone having its intended effect upon my nervous system.
John Shore: Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire
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They were just great camping trips in beautiful Yorkshire countryside, waking up to the bleating of sheep and doves cooing.
Times, Sunday Times
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When he refused to ease down his pace and bleated about freedom of contract, independent Americanism, and the dignity of toil, they proceeded to spoil his pace-making ability.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT
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He needs to lead by example and stop bleating about the big, bad media.
The Sun
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Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful.
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The monk turned to the farmers. “Who would like to tell me the tale of how the sheep moved from one field to another. †“Well, †said Farmer Rae “Last winter was harsh, very harsh, and some people did not have enough grain saved from the summer and their sheep were left bleating and hungry in the field.
365 tomorrows » 2006 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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She thinks I spend all these hours on the computer looking at pornography or some other harmless pursuit; if she knew I was bleating on about life, the universe and everything she would get worried.
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The bleat of sheep, till Ruth’s voice kittled your ear?
Krindlesyke
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The cloning of human beings has seemed inevitable since Dolly took her first bleat, and we should be relieved that it was done by scientists in a laboratory, not by wild-eyed members of some cult.
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Flies buzzed, cockerels crowed, goats bleated and a chorus of dogs was howling furiously.
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People have got the impression that the merino is a gentle, bleating animal that gets its living without trouble to anybody, and comes up every year to be shorn with a pleased smile upon its amiable face.
Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
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Making warding signs and mumbling fearful prayers to Caelus Nin and the Seven Brass gods, the bewildered people of Sumifa fled before her, making for the cliffs, their chickens and goats squawking and bleating in front of them.
Song of Time
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But this paper does carry a different tone to previous bleats by the bosses' union that more investment is needed in delivery mechanisms.
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We reached, at last, towards sunset, a valley that, virent by the multitude and variety of its trees, changed the dreary similarity pervading all things; and a few sheep, that bleated loudly when they saw us, led us to hope we had come again within the line of animal existence.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
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The other fiend was trying to make its way to the pasture where the sheep were bleating.
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Eight of the Germans, piteously bleating "Kamerad" stood against the wall near the door, their hands stretched high above their heads.
The Apartment Next Door
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A lamb is bleating out there on the dim moor; a bird somewhere, a little one, about three fields away, makes the sweetest kind of chirruping; some cows are still cropping.
The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays
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No bitter outbursts, no bleating about ageism.
The Sun
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And now they come to this chamber, bleating, awash with crocodile tears and pretending to be the custodians of free speech - pretending to be the custodians of this institution.
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Goats bleated occasionally, chickens clucked and honks from geese could be heard sometimes.
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Above the sounds of the powerful wind, parakeets and troupials can be heard chattering, and the bleating of goats reverberates across rolling hills.
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Her mouth opened and closed like a mudskipper as she bleated confusedly, Lord Mountrachet?
The Forgotten Garden
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Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful.
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Then why do my ears ring with the lowing of oxen and the bleating of sheep?
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Hardly a week goes by without the police bleating that they would like ‘a quiet word’ with a celebrity over some alleged incident.
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From the slope below, the wild goats bleated faintly.
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My objections are not the usual huge-corporate-malls-are-soulless rants, or the cars-destroy-the-environment bleats you usually get from the tree-huggers.
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Only the gentle buzz of the mechanical shears kind, the chatter of 300 onlookers and the odd sheep's bleat could be heard as 33 of the Mid West's best shearers took part in Geraldton first speed shearing competition.
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The excited squeals of hungry piglets and the bleats of insistent lambs seem better designed for pestering reluctant mothers than for conveying a simple message of need.
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At one point, the entire cast put on white woolly jumpers and bleat like sheep, chewing grass.
Times, Sunday Times
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The NYT article I linked to earlier discusses how the deduction is a partial cause of an overinflated residential housing market, and a real market distortion, unlike the fake ones that the libertarians on here are bleating about.
Matthew Yglesias » GOP Turning Pro-Bank Stance Into Big Bucks
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He immediately rode to his dwelling, and the remaining she-goat came bleating to meet him, for her milking time was long past.
The Black Dwarf
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The newly-awakened sheep bleated from the hills, and the umbrageous herbage, dropping dew, seemed glittering with a thousand fairy gems.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Betsy made bleating sounds of passion; our thrashing limbs rearranged themselves several times; my clutching fingers dug deep into her meaty buttocks; the mechanical thrustings went on and on and on.
Up The Line
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Innocent llamas and other wild beast roam the screen, helpless, bleating and afraid.
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On tour, this dependency was even more intensified; we used to joke in the airports, pretending we were sheep, bleating as we waited for someone to tell us where to go.
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This consists in imitating, with a small instrument called a bleat, the cry of the fawn, so as to lure the doe within reach of the rifle.
A Tour on the Prairies.
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The lights go out all over Europe – quite literally this time – and arch Europhile Romano Prodi is immediately bleating that Europe needs a central power authority.
A Single European blackout
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Last year, he even collaborated on an operetta like – as Tucker would have put it – a mimsy, bleating public schoolboy who lives with cats and an Aga.
Armando Iannucci: 'Now is not the time for a crap opposition'
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It was silent in the little old town on the hill; the only sounds to be heard came from the wind whispering through the treetops and the sheep bleating quietly in their pens.
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First Joey, his voice a mutant-goat bleat, succumbed to lymphoma in 2001.
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I don't know if you care or not but a great doe bleat is Primos Original Can Doe in estrus
What's the best grunt call? Please name the brand and name of the call, thank's a lot.
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If, during his youth, Bush medicated his Anxiety over his own inadequacies and shortcomings with drugs and alcohol, he medicates his current anxiety over his inadequacies as pResident in the White House through the bleating of how terrorists are out to get him, I mean, us, and through the beating of drums for wars, invasions, and occupations.
George W. Bush: War Generating Force
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Their typical call is a commingled bray and bleat, followed by a snorted inhale sounding like an oak dining table being dragged across a hardwood floor.
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But however that may have been, "bleat" and "human" were the two words ever recurring like a refrain in the columns of the _National Observer_, ever the beginning and end of argument in the heated atmosphere of Buckingham
Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties
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You half expect a jazz saxophone to bleat a solo to complete the air of film noir melancholy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pretence of any kind was as the red rag; "bleat" was the unpardonable sin; the man who was "human" was the man to be praised.
Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties
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We pass endless farmyards where cows doze under banyan trees in the morning light and goats bleat hysterically at the sight of her.
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By Town Farm sheep came bleating across a field.
Times, Sunday Times
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A Greens apparatchik phones the station and bleats to the producer.
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They were just great camping trips in beautiful Yorkshire countryside, waking up to the bleating of sheep and doves cooing.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘I suppose it doesn't matter,’ I heard her bleat behind me.
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He looked out at the silent camp, disturbed only by a bleating macaque that echoed Professor Saito's moanings.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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It bleats like a child at its father's wake, relentlessly pining to crescendo before it collapses, exhausted, in its mother's arms.
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If we as a nation had the strength to detach from the glittering, flickering baubles beamed into our cerebral cortexes and mute the bleating klaxons, we'd realize that the "news" spouted from many a sneering, slanted mouth is pure carnival barking, and we'd see what America has allowed itself to become.
Steven Weber: Step Outside
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These two babes had between them a milk-white she-goat, and had been playing with her, and now she turned her head to this and that one of them, bleating, as if to crave more of the game; but they had no eyes for her, but stood staring with might and main on the new-comer and her shining golden gown.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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The remaining living lambs, three of them, were bleating with a kind of horrified, pleading simper.
THE LAST RAVEN
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A Sussex country churchyard in October: the leaves on the trees are turning golden, in the distant Wealden valley autumnal mist is beginning to rise, crows are cawing overhead, sheep are bleating in a nearby field and I am standing in front of the dilapidated grave of one of England's greatest cricketers.
Maurice Tate was a true Ashes hero but now weeds claim his grave
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I'm really grateful to all you folks who answered my bleat about financial support for Catholic apostolates yesterday!
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The great philanthropist, in other words, is financed by mere mortals who stupidly bear their taxes without so much as a plaintive bleat.
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I could rave up every song and moment, but editors are people too, so I'll just share three here: 1. As someone who's always found Bob Dylan amusing and kind of absurd, I guffawed at 3 a.m.; scared the opossums at Idle's startling transformation into ol' Uncle Bobby, strummin' and harpin' and bleatin' nearly incomprehensibly about Brian's theme of "Individuals.
Gregory Weinkauf: Not the Messiah : Monty Python Strikes Again!
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They watched as the goat struggled to its feet and limped away, bleating in protest at this unexpected treatment.
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Drops bleated the sidewalk and made a sound I'd heard before, but wasn't sure where.
Frank Meets Francine
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There were other sounds in the distance: the muted shouting, the bleat of llamas, the distant bustle of the town.
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His voice is a harsh, nasal, confused, emphatic bleat, clamping down on certain words and rolling tricky internal rhymes around in his mouth until they come out all broken.
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The bleats and blats of tuning-up died away, and the musicians took their bow.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 6.1 of 31.1
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For all the bleating of the strident that this makes for "moral relativism" or, in the weighty but sadly empty words of Stephen Harper, "nihilism" - nothing turns on it.
Gen X at 40
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Giggling toddlers play among scrawny chickens and bleating goats.
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There was a sudden sheep-like silence broken only by a bleat - we had been stumped, outwitted and outclassed by an obese, middle-aged rube.
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Wilting with shame, he bleats, ‘I have no hand in all this… all this that has happened.’
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Archbishop of Canterbury, is transformed, as if by irreverent enchantment of the dissenting interest, into A Favourite Terrier, or Cattle Grazing; and the most extraordinary work of art in the list described by the Bleater, is coolly sponged out altogether, and asserted never to have had existence at all, even in the most shadow thoughts of its executant!
Contributions to All the Year Round
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The lamb gave a faint bleat.
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Then Kriti met a goatherd whistling and hooting at his bleating goats.
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They bleat that they make tiny profits on domestic energy.
The Sun
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The crack of the stock-whip mingled continually with the barking of the "collies" and the bellowing and bleating of the cattle and sheep.
In Search of the Castaways
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Alexis de Tocqueville would marvel at what bleating sheep we have become.
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He bleated out a feeble excuse.
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Avoiding the obvious thought of how Andy's constant ‘poor binman me’ bleating must have made other binmen feel, it seemed to be a strategy that worked for him.
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As the officer opened his mouth I suddenly heard a sheep bleating behind me.
CELEBRATING SECOMBE: A Tribute to Sir Harry Secombe
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The lambs bleated for moisture, their tongues rattling in their parched pink mouths.
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It doesn't come out of thin air - down the line, it might even come out of the pockets of all those little people he bleats on about.
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Everyone on both sides of American politics from Obama downwards joined in the storm of outrage, which was followed by predictable bleating from the banksters.
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Flies buzzed, cockerels crowed, goats bleated and a chorus of dogs was howling furiously.
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Goats bleated occasionally, chickens clucked and honks from geese could be heard sometimes.
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Jurt cried out-no recognizable words, just an animallike bleat.
Sign of Chaos
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Pay no attention to the bleating of those goats.
Christianity Today
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The lambs were bleating
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Alas, the reprise is a bleating duet by Peabo Bryson and Celine Dion.
Just The Way Walt Made 'Em
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Children screamed, and ran hiding behind their dusky mothers; dogs growled and barked; horses neighed; mules hinnied; asses brayed; while the sheep and goats joined their bleating to the universal chorus.
The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
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It may be that by transmitting even passive radio signals we are like a lost kid bleating its presence to a good shepherd, or to a tiger.
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The remaining living lambs, three of them, were bleating with a kind of horrified, pleading simper.
THE LAST RAVEN
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What right did I have to bleat about my feelings?
The Sun
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There was that permeating smell of animals and damp straw, the bleat of a llama came from a neighbouring stall.
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Again the answer drifted down, this time in a long-drawn-out bleat of protest: ‘Nooooo!’
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The windows fog milky with conversation, uninterrupted by the bleating of a hospital monitor, and absentmindedly I begin tracing shapes: Pacmen, stars.
Valerie Sobel: Andre Sobel Essay Award Winner: 'Chai'
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At one point, the entire cast put on white woolly jumpers and bleat like sheep, chewing grass.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why, I remember when my own won the pig competition in the county fair, it made my heart bleat with pride and joy.
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I amused myself by calling people from the sheep barn and leaving the bleats of shorn sheep on their machines.
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She's always bleating about how badly she's been treated.
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Now and then there was the bleat of a goat or the call of a bullbat, but that was all.
The Lonesome Dove Series
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The chiefs of the association are unlikely to pay much heed to a rural bleat, even if the problem is almost nation-wide.
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Incidentally, I don't know why whingeing has to start with a bleat.
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The lambs in the paddock are constantly bleating at the moment, mainly for food (we're trying to wean them from milk to grass) but also for attention as we humans are their mums.
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We camped overnight but with the dawn chorus and the sheep bleating, it was hard to sleep!
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During rut I do hang out a doe in estrus scent tab and I have also gotten bucks to come from a couple hundred yards away with one simple doe bleat.
What is the best way to bring in a deer into shooting range without using a lot of different calls?
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That means an end to bleats of: ‘Dad, the internet is down.’
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I replied: "It is a vile epistle which has been written in golden letters: -- '_Verily this ass, with the resemblance of a man, has the carcase of a calf, and the voice or bleating of a calf_.'
The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2
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Pay no attention to the bleating of those goats.
Christianity Today
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They would be bleating and complaining that this Government was not involved in the Solomon Islands.
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Their MPs voted for the anti-democratic state of emergency without a bleat of protest.
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Governments behave more like tethered goats, bleating reassurance with their eyes tight shut.
Times, Sunday Times
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And to the Chinese here who are bleating on about the British importing Opium into China 150 years ago, have you forgotten how Mao funded the Red Army when based in Yenan?
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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The goats bleated a warning.
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The goat went last and she did not bleat, but dextrously butted two of her persecutors and micturated upon the third before being cast into space.
Greener Than You Think
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Simultaneous with this report were the bleatings of spinmeisters and revisionists, who are hoping to encourage the EU to lift its ban on biotech food.
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The harmful radiation from his cell phone bleated right up against his brain, whose own neural waves met the harmful rays at the entrance to his skull like the Sharks meeting the Jets, or the Bloods meeting the Kryps, or Freddy meeting Jason, or Oasis meeting anyone.
Marc Philippe Eskenazi: Eavesdropping on New York Cell Phone Conversations
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In this whole field of sheep it would bleat and come flying towards Lilly.
The Sun
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What a shame we don't hear more of them, and less of - oh, you know, the incessant bleating from the front benches.
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The latest bleat seems to be: those Democrats, that Jesse Jackson, they have unclean hands and double standards.
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Still, there's no point in bleating about that.
The Sun
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Lead him home with a sugan the way you'd lead a bleating goat.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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“Categorical perception of nonspeech chirps and bleats”, Percept Psychophys, 48 (2): 151-6.
Innateness and Language
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All we hear is the wind and birdsong, sheep bleating and the sea when the wind's in the right direction.
Times, Sunday Times
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And it turns out he's just a big sissy bleating for his ma while on the very cusp of cacking his pants.
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The valley is quiet and serene, and right now is bursting with the energy and exuberance of spring - the trees are budding, the daffodils bobbing, the birds are busy, the lambs are bleating and there are calves suckling.
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He slurred words, intentionally sang out of tune, bleated like a sheep, laughed at himself and made up nonsensical lines.
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From the kitchen comes the less violent bleating of the baby lambs, and in the distance the occasional deeper bleat of a sheep or low of a cow.
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YOU can't bleat a pygmy goat.
The Sun
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I wish people would stop bleating on about the return of the mildly entertaining Inspector Montalbano.
Times, Sunday Times
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The silence of the presses is deafening and the telescreen continues to bleat.
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Serena II this clonic earth see-saw she is blurred in sleep she is fat half dead the rest is free-wheeling part the black shag the pelt is ashen woad snarl and howl in the wood wake all the birds hound the harlots out of the ferns this damfool twilight threshing in the brake bleating to be bloodied this crapulent hush tears its heart out and so on...
Archive 2006-04-01
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‘If it lasted a week, it would be okay,’ he bleats, ‘but it lasts a month!’
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Contrary to Dembski's bleats, the evidence that complex biological systems are the product of evolution is sufficient to convince just about every scientist who has ever considered the matter.
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Just when a decisive voice is called for, there's Michael Ignatieff bleating almost en passant about the Harper cut-and-run exercise, and then proffering loads of hype about a Liberal "thinkers 'conference" in March (which may conflict with a Spring election call, leaving all those thoughts unthought).
Opposition: time to recalibrate
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He senses that Europe's concerns aren't getting a hearing in America because Europe bleats with a voice which is both confused and hypocritical.
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He needs to lead by example and stop bleating about the big, bad media.
The Sun
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On delicate feet they tripped from the road, the young ones uttering their plaintive bleats.
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But Taylor's barrack-room bleating in defence of poor Rio has been nothing short of pitiful.
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He bleated in fear while mama kept trying to bump us out of the way so she could get to him.
Mercy Kill
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Frantically denying the obvious, he's suddenly the bleating schlemiel in a heartless sex farce.
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Manifestation of my words came fourteen years after I'd spoken there but at the time it was only an honest bleat of frustration with a system that was reprehensible.
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A car-driving, home-owning, polytechnic lecturer with a fake northern accent, was a bleating guilty liberal, not a socialist.
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It rarely speaks, though if frightened it may bleat like a goat. some occasionally have goats' shanks and hooves as well.
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They are always bleating about 'unfair' foreign competition.
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Without warning, the machine bleats: ‘It's not my fault ’in a piteous voice.
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The eternal bleat from the Right is that they are being prevented from asking legitimate questions by an hysterical climate of political-correctness.
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How else to explain the suddenly awakened consciences of the conspicuously caucasian Tea Baggers who, rather than easily grasp that the causes they trumpet are actually empirically proven to be detrimental to their own interests, opt instead to bleat banal credos which sound superficially like rousing cries for "smaller government" and "accountability" but what are in truth thinly veiled, virulent, recidivistic expressions of deep-seated racism?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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They were just great camping trips in beautiful Yorkshire countryside, waking up to the bleating of sheep and doves cooing.
Times, Sunday Times
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I say occasionally because the majority of what I tweet (some would say "bleat") covers subjects near and dear to my sophomoric soul: genitals, bowel movements or just plain obscure references to even more obscure behavior both real and fictional that I (and my cadre of equally depraved followers) find amusing.
Steven Weber: Listen to the Mocking Bird
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She cannot bear any bleating about rich students getting an unfair advantage.
Times, Sunday Times
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If any proof were needed, then the fact that the Human Rights brigade are bleating and complaining about it must show it is a good thing.
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A grass-chomping, bleating, Lakeland sheep is set to become the star of a series of books written and illustrated by a local author.
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Despite the wonders of the FSUW, I can hear the bleating of the pro vice-chancellor (teaching and learning) at Slumberton University.
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I don't know if you care or not but a great doe bleat is Primos Original Can Doe in estrus
What's the best grunt call? Please name the brand and name of the call, thank's a lot.
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Still, when the bus stopped for any length of time, the bleats of goaty anguish would start up again, and my companion and I would glance at each other.
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The curses of the camel-drivers beating the animals; the cries of the hawkers who sold amulets against leprosy and the evil eye; the psalmody of the monks reciting verses of the Bible; the shrieking of the women who were prophesying; the shouting of the beggars singing old songs of the harem; the bleating of sheep; the braying of asses; the sailors calling tardy passengers; all these confused noises caused a deafening uproar, over which dominated the strident voices of the little naked negro boys, running about everywhere selling fresh dates.
Thais
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Their typical call is a mingled bray and bleat, followed by a snorted inhale sounding like an oak dining table being dragged across a hardwood floor.
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All we hear is the wind and birdsong, sheep bleating and the sea when the wind's in the right direction.
Times, Sunday Times
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The boy who long ago kissed their bare shoulders, or the raspy-voiced best friend, bleating out hilarious comments about her puckered fanny from the next dressing room over at Eileen Fisher?
What Girls Want
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They have been spoonfed lies and distortions about the British Empire, so that they bleat about how ashamed they are of it, forgetting that for all its faults it gave parliamentary democracy to the world (or tried to), and abolished excesses such as suttee and thuggee.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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They were just great camping trips in beautiful Yorkshire countryside, waking up to the bleating of sheep and doves cooing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Universities may be outraged at further ruination - but who cares about bleating academics at election time?
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_ -- Many children, long after they have overcome acataphasia and agrammatism, delight in inserting between words sounds, syllables, and words that do not belong there; e. g., they double the last syllable of every word and put an _eff_ to it: _ich-ich-eff_, _bin in-eff_, etc., or they make a kind of bleat between the words
The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.
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Seguis ends his pathetic bleat with this statement to the terrorists.
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What right did I have to bleat about my feelings?
The Sun
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There was some gonk called Costello on the today program this morning bleating on about the end of the world.
IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD...
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And to promote her movies, Jennifer Aniston, well, bleats on endlessly about her life.
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Style comes before substance in this world; image-conscious characters are constantly faking it, while bleating about doing something meaningful.
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Few tricks of the unsophisticated intellect are more curious than the naïve psychology of the business man, who ascribes his achievements to his own unaided efforts, in bland unconsciousness of a social order without whose continuous support and vigilant protection he would be as a lamb bleating in the desert," wrote the great economic historian R.H. Tawney in 1926.
Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS
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And yet, there seems to be a quiet, collective resistance to all the bleating, all the raree.
Steven Weber: Mavericks, Mobs and the Cameras That Love Them
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Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful.
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And, he repeats the bleats about how pure and dedicated scientists would never get into ‘showbiz,’ nor would they ever try for a prize.
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The lane petered out to track, the rain increased to torrential and dozens of lambs crowded under thorn trees, bleating.
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Today the still air held the bleating of sheep and the cries of hundreds of thousands of seabirds.
Times, Sunday Times
