Example Sentences

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In addition to checking our beacons at the trailhead, the Silver Star Sno-Park has an automated beacon detection sign so you can double-check that your lifesaving device is beeping.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2022

Campbell’s alarm is beeping more frequently, and he was recently rushed to the pulmonary ICU overnight.

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2021

The Liverpool Transfer Money Delivery Truck is beeping while the disembodied voice of Roy Hodgson urges: "Stand back, vehicle reversing" as it backs into a parking space outside the Stadium Municipal in Toulouse.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2010

"As long as Freddie is singing and the monitor is beeping, you know things are all right," says Oakum, "but it's a nightmare."

From Time Magazine Archive