bleat
verb (used without object)
to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
are bleating
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present progressiveof bleat.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The sheep and lambs are bleating in the fields away behind me, and there is a clatter of a donkey’s hoofs up the paved road below.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
New-born lambs are bleating, And the cawing rooks are meeting In the elms—a noisy crowd.
From Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study by Anonymous
The lambs are sporting on the green knoll; the anxious dams are bleating to recall them to their side.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner
I'm afeared father's ill, or may be the calves are bleating for me, that is better acquaint with them than sister Patty is.
From Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade
Hark! the new-born lambs are bleating, And the cawing rooks are meeting In the elms,—a noisy crowd; 5 All the birds are singing loud; And the first white butterfly In the sunshine dances by.
From Graded Poetry: Third Year by Various
