Bleat
verb
To make a noise like a sheep.
The sheep was bleating in the field
Often appears as...
- sheep bleat
- bleat loudly
verb
To complain loudly or foolishly.
He is always bleating about his poor working conditions.
Often appears as...
- bleat about something
- constant bleating
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Disapproving
noun
The sound that a sheep makes.
We heard the bleat of a sheep in the distance.
Often appears as...
- loud bleat
- faint bleat
verb
To make a noise like a sheep.
The sheep was bleating in the field
Often appears as...
- sheep bleat
- bleat loudly
verb
To complain loudly or foolishly.
He is always bleating about his poor working conditions.
Often appears as...
- bleat about something
- constant bleating
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
The sound that a sheep makes.
We heard the bleat of a sheep in the distance.
Often appears as...
- loud bleat
- faint bleat
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Sound
Used to describe sounds of certain animals, not just sheep.
The goat bleated as we approached.
Pro Tip 2/3Nature Imagery
Invokes rural or pastoral imagery; often used in literature.
The bleat of the lambs filled the spring air.
Pro Tip 3/3Sign of Distress
May indicate that an animal is in pain or discomfort.
The bleating increased when the farmer approached the injured sheep.
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Sound
Used to describe sounds of certain animals, not just sheep.
The goat bleated as we approached.
Pro Tip 2/3Nature Imagery
Invokes rural or pastoral imagery; often used in literature.
The bleat of the lambs filled the spring air.
Pro Tip 3/3Sign of Distress
May indicate that an animal is in pain or discomfort.
The bleating increased when the farmer approached the injured sheep.
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Sound
Used to describe sounds of certain animals, not just sheep.
The goat bleated as we approached.
Pro Tip 2/3Nature Imagery
Invokes rural or pastoral imagery; often used in literature.
The bleat of the lambs filled the spring air.
Pro Tip 3/3Sign of Distress
May indicate that an animal is in pain or discomfort.
The bleating increased when the farmer approached the injured sheep.
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Carolyn Steel: How food...
you can see that it would have been very difficult to live in a city like this and be unaware of where your food came from. In fact, if you were having Sunday lunch, the chances were it was mooing or bleating outside your window about three days earlier. So this was obviously an organic city,
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Safari Live - Day 129 PIPE...
be a situation where he's going to tell you all that he bettered for the longest which might have some element of truth to it but he definitely didn't he didn't have my number as he said there was no psychological advantage and he's going to bleat about LBW which is called leg
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Fatal Encounter with...
It's pretty grim, not the sort of thing you can show on any screen. The baboon slowly ate the baby alive as it bleated for its mother, and that's the image and memory I have. In the space of maybe 5 minutes I witness the full, gruesome circle of life.
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A day in the life of a...
As dawn breaks over a moveable city of ten thousand yurts, Queen Boraqchin is in for a rude awakening. A rogue sheep has slipped past her servants and guards and bolted into her yurt, where he springs into bed and bleats in her ear.
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Safari Live - Day 12 PIPE...
ecosystem especially hyena so it's there's a strong possibility one will come on to the fray the wind could be helping these cheats in terms of it muffling the sounds of this wildebeest bellowing bleating and it will also be
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The 5 Musketeers Have an...
you can see one always pops at a nap making sure that there's no potential threats close by because even with this wind hyenas sense of hearing was so good and that baby Impala did bleat a little bit
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Fainting Goats PIPE...
unusual and then there are the gulls myotonic goats to be specific more commonly known as stiff-leg goats wooden leg goats nervous goats fainting goats bleating goats are indigenous to North
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One Mongoose Born Every...
instrumental in raising the young and fighting off rivals but it's looking like those days may be over called out of their slumber by the bleating cries the other males go and investigate
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Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...
might have been a Steinbach by the next you know the difference between their Lanka it was little bleating sound did you hear that said safely got her ears
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Young Fawn Hastily...
we've got some girls behind us some Hinds once he bleats we've got to get out fast because they'll come running john wants the tag the young dear
Video examples
Carolyn Steel: How food...
you can see that it would have been very difficult to live in a city like this and be unaware of where your food came from. In fact, if you were having Sunday lunch, the chances were it was mooing or bleating outside your window about three days earlier. So this was obviously an organic city,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 129 PIPE...
be a situation where he's going to tell you all that he bettered for the longest which might have some element of truth to it but he definitely didn't he didn't have my number as he said there was no psychological advantage and he's going to bleat about LBW which is called leg
Video examples
Fatal Encounter with...
It's pretty grim, not the sort of thing you can show on any screen. The baboon slowly ate the baby alive as it bleated for its mother, and that's the image and memory I have. In the space of maybe 5 minutes I witness the full, gruesome circle of life.
Video examples
A day in the life of a...
As dawn breaks over a moveable city of ten thousand yurts, Queen Boraqchin is in for a rude awakening. A rogue sheep has slipped past her servants and guards and bolted into her yurt, where he springs into bed and bleats in her ear.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 12 PIPE...
ecosystem especially hyena so it's there's a strong possibility one will come on to the fray the wind could be helping these cheats in terms of it muffling the sounds of this wildebeest bellowing bleating and it will also be
Video examples
The 5 Musketeers Have an...
you can see one always pops at a nap making sure that there's no potential threats close by because even with this wind hyenas sense of hearing was so good and that baby Impala did bleat a little bit
Video examples
Fainting Goats PIPE...
unusual and then there are the gulls myotonic goats to be specific more commonly known as stiff-leg goats wooden leg goats nervous goats fainting goats bleating goats are indigenous to North
Video examples
One Mongoose Born Every...
instrumental in raising the young and fighting off rivals but it's looking like those days may be over called out of their slumber by the bleating cries the other males go and investigate
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...
might have been a Steinbach by the next you know the difference between their Lanka it was little bleating sound did you hear that said safely got her ears
Video examples
Young Fawn Hastily...
we've got some girls behind us some Hinds once he bleats we've got to get out fast because they'll come running john wants the tag the young dear
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Felix Dennis
British Publisher
Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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Will Self
English Author
Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.
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Tana French
Irish Novelist
I read one book where the characters never said anything; instead, they spent all their time grunting and bleating and hissing and cooing and growling and chirping and... It was like a menagerie in there. After a while, I wasn't even taking in the rest of the book, because that was all I could see: the dialogue tags.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly quiet. But here and there - on worlds where matter is thick and conditions are right - noises are commonplace. And in some cases, these noisy worlds may ring with the sounds of life - the bleats and bellows of creatures we have never seen, but may someday discover.
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Milo Yiannopoulos
British Activist
Every voice on the Left bleated about how they feared protests and riots by angry Donald Trump supporters if and when he lost the election, yet it is the Leftists themselves destroying property and blocking roads. Everyone can see where the hate is coming from. Everyone.
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Evan Osnos
American Journalist
In a city that worships the new and the sleek, the street market at Da Jing Road is willfully out of step. It is a splendid jumble of centuries, full of sizzling pot stickers and bleating cell phones, pungent rice wine and bullfrogs as plump as softballs.
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Ann Coulter
American Journalist
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.
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Steven Rattner
American Businessman
Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.
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Felix Dennis
British Publisher
Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
Quote examples
Will Self
English Author
Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.
Quote examples
Tana French
Irish Novelist
I read one book where the characters never said anything; instead, they spent all their time grunting and bleating and hissing and cooing and growling and chirping and... It was like a menagerie in there. After a while, I wasn't even taking in the rest of the book, because that was all I could see: the dialogue tags.
Quote examples
Seth Shostak
American Scientist
The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly quiet. But here and there - on worlds where matter is thick and conditions are right - noises are commonplace. And in some cases, these noisy worlds may ring with the sounds of life - the bleats and bellows of creatures we have never seen, but may someday discover.
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Milo Yiannopoulos
British Activist
Every voice on the Left bleated about how they feared protests and riots by angry Donald Trump supporters if and when he lost the election, yet it is the Leftists themselves destroying property and blocking roads. Everyone can see where the hate is coming from. Everyone.
Quote examples
Evan Osnos
American Journalist
In a city that worships the new and the sleek, the street market at Da Jing Road is willfully out of step. It is a splendid jumble of centuries, full of sizzling pot stickers and bleating cell phones, pungent rice wine and bullfrogs as plump as softballs.
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Ann Coulter
American Journalist
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.
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Steven Rattner
American Businessman
Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.
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