Blats

Sometimes I hear horns, beeps, blats and spoken alerts in Japanese. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I had been making a doe distress call by calling to quickly and making short blats. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As a member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and with his own bands especially Brass Fantasy, a brass-and-drums nonet, he embraced both avant-garde values and the techniques of jazz's earliest trumpeters, employing smears, blats, growls and half-valve winces in new ways. ❋ Larry Blumenfeld (2011)

These stories seem to have come fulmin ating out of him in long booms and blats of renewed energy. ❋ James Parker (2010)

As it was big enough for only two people, he enjoyed trapping someone in it with him and farting in sharp trumpet blats as he ascended three floors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Raucous blats of noise erupted from the loudspeakers in staccato bursts as they tuned up. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The bleats and blats of tuning-up died away, and the musicians took their bow. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Actually two blats, the second chronologically the first being aimed at Gavin Schmidt. ❋ EliRabett (2008)

If I could be bother to look, no doubt there are some worthy and tortured articles in the blats on English identity, the meaning of life and everything Philip Johnston has a good go. ❋ Helen (2007)

Jeff Jacoby blats out another one of his "Everything is Peachy Keen in Iraq" columns. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The leaders are not much better, but I will look at those more closely later today and thus will conclude by saying that the picture painted in the blats is entirely a media event, not in any way borne out by reality. ❋ Richard (2005)

I just want to remind people what kind of man this is, because as he was being led into court, he was smiling and saying that he was glad that so many Westerners were killed in the Bali blats. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A cluster of bright orange lights came on at the top of the capsule-shaped enclosure, and an alarm began to go off: in broad, hoarse blats that bartered the walls. ❋ King, Stephen, 1947- (1991)

The helicopter rasps and blats through page after page, a malevolent intruder from some other world (fundamentalists find it in the Bible), disturbing the order of nature, intruding into people's lives, flying backward and sideways, an occult sacrament of the new politics: ❋ Wills, Garry (1990)

We now realized that the road we had followed was one of their trails that the guttural calls and blasts from rude trumpets were their snorts and blats, that the spears we had seen were their horns viewed from lower ground. ❋ Charles Boardman Hawes (N/A)

As soon as a guy has a three-dollar patch of bum land (with a mortgage eating it up, most likely), he always blats about 'trespassing' whenever decent folks happens to walk on it. ❋ Albert Payson Terhune (1907)

Penrod suddenly stopped his intermittent production of blats, and intervened. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)

Karman has reported and edited for various trade and trade union blats and worked as a copywriter. ❋ Pete Karman (2010)

So far so good, then he pops up, spins round, and blats off two rounds at the effects gun group. ❋ Unknown (2010)