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How to pronounce bleat in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms baa, blat, blate
Type of utter, emit, let loose, let out


The lambs were bleating.
Type Words
Type of plain, sound off, kick, kvetch, complain, quetch
Type Words
Type of cry

Examples of bleat

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Anna shivered in the cold, her knees bent to her chest, and she let out a bleat.
From the newsobserver.com
I'm not even going to bleat on about how negative, boring and physical Stoke are.
From the expressandstar.com
Fred alone has been punished, his chums bleat, while others are equally guilty.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Fawns release a high-pitched squeal, known as a bleat, to call out to their mothers.
From the en.wikipedia.org
And still liberal simps bleat about the need for new laws to disarm the law abiding.
From the swampland.time.com
Whatever the critics will bleat, the long-term trend is one of sustained improvement.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Ah, you liberal minded Islington lefties will bleat, you can't blame them.
From the guardian.co.uk
This sounds more like a bleat from the Jeremy Clarkson school of denial.
From the independent.co.uk
Mr Corbell can bleat about the low risks of such a measre until he is blue in the face.
From the canberratimes.com.au
More examples
  • The sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)
  • Talk whiningly
  • Cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating"
  • The sheep (Ovis aries) is a quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. Although the name "sheep" applies to many species in the genus Ovis, in everyday usage it almost always refers to Ovis aries. Numbering a little over one billion, domestic sheep are also the most numerous species of sheep...
  • The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat; Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry; Of a person, to complain
  • (bleating) A noise that bleats; inane or plaintive chatter
  • (Bleating) To hear young animals bleating in your dreams, foretells that you will have new duties and cares, though not necessarily unpleasant ones.
  • A Naval slang word for a grumble, used as both noun and verb.