Noun : the bleat of distant horns. ,I listened to their inane bleat all evening.    From Dictionary.com. 

So your phony “feel sorry for me” bleating is illogical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » VIDEO: Alberto Gonzales Says His Grandparents May Have Been Illegal Immigrants] Reference

The thing that has annoyed me most this week is the bleating from the eternal flames.    From Wordnik.com.  [Please Be Patient While I Ignore You « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

This is why despite the usual Weimarish bleating from the Lib Dems Northern Rock will not be nationalised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-11-18] Reference

So, in all of the bleating from the right, how many have actually criticized the factual observations of these generals?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Right Wing Swiftboats Generals Who Called on Rumsfeld to Resign] Reference

Firstly, what is the difference between him "bleating" his views and you bleating your views.    From Wordnik.com.  [The stupidity of youth] Reference

A lot of bleating from the Welsh blogosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The State of the Welsh Blogosphere] Reference

He now carries it through the house randomly, 'bleating'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boudicca's Voice] Reference

This kind of bleating by conservative media wonks reminds me of nothing so much as those Oscar-worthy performances by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of A Boy and His Computer - blog] Reference

And plunge in wholesome stream the bleating flock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Georgics] Reference

And the lambs 'bleating whets the listening wolves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Georgics] Reference

She was unaware, however, and continued bleating away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Name Buttons] Reference

  Little bleating sounds came from her clinched body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of That Bed 1963] Reference

One television commentator kept bleating about "mustard shoots".    From Wordnik.com.  [Don McNay: What will the Recovery Look Like?] Reference

Even as he looked upon it, the lambs were bleating in the stalls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of the King] Reference

From the lush meadow across the river came the bleating of lambs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Window] Reference

One youthful imitator expelled a laugh like the bleating of a goat.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

Alas, the reprise is a bleating duet by Peabo Bryson and Celine Dion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just The Way Walt Made 'Em] Reference

The sound of crowds screeching and TVs bleating receded as she climbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round the World Now] Reference

And if some old sheep took to bleating -- "Poor child, you'll be the death of her!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

At the end of the flock came a lamb, bleating and trying to keep up with its mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference

Mars snatches from the folds some lamb sought of his mother with incessant bleating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

In consternation the sheep scatter; hither and thither they are fleeting and bleating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

After breakfast she will listen to her CD with sounds of rain, insects, and goats bleating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camp K.] Reference

The sheep are bleating amongst the mounded graves, and the curate is bleating at the lectern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

I could scarcely tell him as I can tell you, that the bleating of the lambs gave me a sore heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference

Hearing the bleating of some sheep, he made his way to them and asked them to take compassion on him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference

He had no sooner said it than, behold, there was heard the bleating of the sheep, and the lowing of the oxen.    From Wordnik.com.  [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference

A little goatherd, leading his bleating flock, plays on a reed flute to summon a straggler from a distant crag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference

“Stop that!” he shouted, bleating like a goat but with enough of a boy's voice left that she recognized him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melliflua and the Fauns] Reference

"Oh, we can all get in it!" cried Freddie, as he ran from the wagon over to where the goat was bleating in his crate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island] Reference

And this extraordinary bleating, hardly human, scatters and changes my ideas, which were very nearly clear at the moment I awoke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Melliflua turned to laugh, and saw the two others, Schifo and Fetore, stopped at the edge of the ravine and shouting and bleating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melliflua and the Fauns] Reference

And Samuel said: What meaneth then this bleating of the flocks, which soundeth in my ears, and the lowing of the herds, which I hear?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 09: 1 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference

And then it complains about its own bleating tone of voice and starts petulantly kicking the back of the seat, asking if we're there yet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forget those creative writing workshops. If you want to write, get threatened] Reference

Diners ate Swedish pancakes and meatballs as a red pickup arrived with four bleating passengers: Buckshot, Charlotte, Copper and Flipper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lars Johnson Has Goats on His Roof and a Stable of Lawyers to Prove It] Reference

There was just more bleating about how bad schools are and the beginnings of the press for more standards, testing, and "accountability.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The danger of blaming schools for economic woes] Reference