bleat
verb (used without object)
to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
is bleating
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present progressiveof bleat (3rd person singular).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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See yon lamb that now is bleating, Him misfortune calls its own; And mark’d out an early victim, From the flock he strays alone.
From Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect by John Castillo
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
