bleat
verb (used without object)
to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
had bleated
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past perfectof bleat.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Automatically, he had bleated out his yes, and now he would face her irritation.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Such hearts, however, as had bleated for their sympathy had either bleated altogether in vain, or, finding the sympathy vouchsafed not at all what they wanted, bleated more fiercely than before.
From Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates
When they reached the tree where the goat had bleated, the Punjabi skin-buyer rose up, took one long look at the fakir and ran.
From Told in the East by Talbot Mundy
I saw a lit cigarette-end, and a woman's laugh came across the field as naturally as if a sheep had bleated in the swampy grass.
From A Diary Without Dates by Enid Bagnold
Nevertheless, Israel recked nothing of her weakness, for joy at the loss of those powers over which his enemies throughout seventeen evil years had bleated and barked "Beelzebub!"
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine
