Example Sentences

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"It's scary, and you do think you are going to die when you can't breathe, and the machines around you are beeping," she said.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2022

“We have generators running to keep our freezers going, and all our smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors are beeping constantly.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2020

“When you’ve got multiple sources coming at one time, it’s a cacophony. Some are whirring, some are beeping, and some are cow bells.”

From Washington Times • Jul. 3, 2017

Indoors, designers are beginning to domesticate some of the gadgets that are beeping us, buzzing us, little-red-light-flashing us and computer-accessing us into an awesome and intriguing electronic future.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I’m going to have to call you back. The Dog Squad people are beeping in.”

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein