(v. i.) To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.
(n.) A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using tonal stimuli based on the nonspeech stimuli of Mattingly et al., we found that subjects, with appropriate practice, could classify nonspeech chirp, short bleat, and bleat continua with boundaries equivalent to the syllable place continuum of Mattingly et al.
(2) There is no point in bleating about it,” Ritchie said.
(3) In a second experiment the bleats of 23 pregnant ewes were recorded; their lambs were taken at birth and tested with the sound of either their own mother's bleats, or with bleats from an alien ewe.
(4) With its bleating goats and vegetable patches, the centre is an oasis of rural tranquillity compared with the hustle and bustle of Goma down the road.
(5) Why is it acceptable to denigrate anything Catholic but bleat tolerance about every other religion?
(6) Worse for Greece, many of the suits in Brussels believe that for all the bleating, it is a wealthy country that only need embark on some redistribution of its own to solve much of its poverty.
(7) If the 13-year legal battle over Firing Zone 918 ends in Israel's favour, the bleat of goats will be replaced by the crack of assault rifles and the villagers will be moved into a nearby town.
(8) "But it's just Heartbeat with an umbilical hernia," bleat the unbelievers, pinching their delicate nosey-woses at the sight of steaming prolapses and swatting away the cuddles and godliness with their Game Of Thrones box sets.
(9) Best paragraph: “Many bleated they had nothing to hide and thus have nothing to fear during the Obama (and Bush) administration, out of trust for a president or fear of terror.
(10) I don’t think anyone can bleat if they don’t act.
(11) Bogus claims about “sovereignty”, and ill-judged bleating about “Brussels”, influenced many people I met, even before we were presented with the results.
(12) As a result, general inequality has been becoming more grievous with every year that passes, and without a bleat from the leaders of the party who once spoke up so trenchantly and characteristically for greater equality.
(13) Significantly more stimulated ewes licked the lamb and emitted low-pitched bleats in a 30-min test.
(14) Public corporations are like nation states in one respect, namely that while they may bleat (or boast) about their "values", in the end they are driven only by their national or corporate interests – which in practice means the interests of shareholders.
(15) Experts are not certain at this stage if Tian Tian (left) is pregnant, but the latest hormone tests are said to show positive signs and she is being closely watched for signs of labour such as restless behaviour and bleating.
(16) There is broad agreement that this is a London problem and only bleating metropolitan elites are troubled by it.
(17) So isn't he merely bleating about the treatment he dishes out to others?
(18) And there is a strong feeling that we should do over the Bleating Broadcasting Corporation.
(19) "Rather than just bleat about it, I think we should just do something about it … I believe in the territory, I love the territory," he said, standing next to his candidate for the marginal seat of Solomon, Luke Gosling.
(20) Trump’s supporters, like Brexit supporters before them, will say that these are merely the bleatings of the sore losers – the Remoaners, the Grimtons, or whatever portmanteau is conceived next.
Grunt
Definition:
(v. t.) To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.
(n.) A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
(n.) Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt (H. aurolineatus), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite repeated attempts to contact it from the ground, Phobos-Grunt remained stuck in orbit and the Russian authorities decided to abandon the mission.
(2) I seesaw-grunted out of bed at 8.30am and had a bird bath, soaping mainly the naughty bits, for I was in a hurry that Wednesday: it was the day I filed my Observer TV review.
(3) Three of the four sows showed a characteristic increase in rate of grunting about 20 to 25 sec before fast sucking began.
(4) Grunting usually ceased within 15 minutes of the start of C.P.A.P., and there was also on average a 30 percent increase in the respiratory-rate.
(5) he grunts - reliving the moment when, in his first fight with Ali at Madison Square Garden in 1971, he knocked down his then unbeaten opponent to clinch a momentous victory.
(6) Wild Words of Sport (@WWofSport) @Simon_Burnton Nadal, with his caveman grunting, his undie-picking, is a visceral beast.
(7) Territorial males produce grunts, moans and growls during courtship.
(8) Spall's performance has been much celebrated for its emotional depth, despite Turner's vocabulary in the film often consisting of grunts, snorts and spitting saliva onto the canvas.
(9) Specific, highly predictive (though less common) signs included moderate to severe chest wall recession, respiratory grunt, cold calves, and a tender abdomen.
(10) When the newborn is no longer capable of the excess extra work required for grunting, the decompensated phase of IRDS sets in.
(11) After all, two Phobos probes had failed in 1988, plans to launch Phobos-Grunt in 2009 were abandoned very late in the day and Russia has not launched its own planetary mission since 1996 when Mars-96 burnt up over the Pacific and South America after a rocket failure.
(12) Insiders played down the significance of the move, saying that Entwistle had wanted somebody to help him with the "grunt work" of examining the BBC's internal data, leaving him free for face-to face-meetings.
(13) This suggests that the change in grunting is one but not the only cue used by the piglets to time their suckling behavior.
(14) We do not know precisely the postconceptual age at which the newborn is sufficiently developed to adopt these various defensive strategies of breathing, but the presence of tachypnea and grunting in 28-week-old premature infants suggests that long before term the human infant is capable of remarkable variation in the defense of breathing.
(15) When they left, [when] both police officers and Ms Dhu went out to the waiting room, I said to the police officer that, ‘this could be withdrawal from drugs’.” She said Ms Dhu was moaning and grunting, but considered those noises to be “voluntary” and more a signal of emotional distress than pain.
(16) This is a genuine and unexpected pleasure; getting more than a grunt from Arran is usually a task akin to ... well, getting a teenage boy to have a conversation.
(17) Somehow, though, this Carry On, if slightly punchy, seaside resort is as rock-solidly English as a jaw-jutting bloke in a pub who might just grunt "You looking at my caravan?"
(18) Hitching a ride on the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft is China's first interplanetary probe, the tiny 115kg Yinghuo-1 , which is due to work alongside Phobos-Grunt to study the Martian atmosphere.
(19) Ahead, a stripy piglet trots faster, swerves and gallops up the bank towards its mother’s summoning grunts.
(20) In the first case we are dealing with an eight year old boy who made grunting noises.