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
The sheep are bleating amongst the mounded graves, and the curate is bleating at the lectern.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
Sheep are bleating, and excited farmers are yelling like pandemonium or an Irish House of Commons.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley
My sheep-bells tinkle frae the west, My lambs are bleating near; But still the sound that I lo'e best, Alack!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
For the lambs are bleating in the south, And the salmon swims towards Olfus mouth, Girth and graithe and gather your gear!
From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris
