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How to use bleep in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun, verb

Bleep means a brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device. Example: “What the bleep are you doing?”

Examples of bleep by meaning

nounA general euphemism for any expletive.

  • What the bleep are you doing?
  • Who the bleep are you, Bob Kavin, to tell lesbians whether or not it's "appropriate" for us to gather together as women?1990 February 4, Beth Elliott, “Not Men's Property”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 3

nounA broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.

  • At InsanitoriuM we have a large, young, crowd that would up and leave if we started playing bleep at them, and we're not alone.2005, oldgoth, “Theaving^([sic]) Goths”, in uk.people.gothic (Usenet)

verbTo emit one or more bleeps.

  • The robot bleeped to acknowledge its new instructions.
  • The basic toilet has quite a heavy door, which then bleeps to remind you to lock it - with a nice, peace of mind, manual lock.2024 January 24, Pip Dunn, “Adventure on a GA Class 20 Aventra”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 52

verbTo contact someone by pager.

  • If his condition gets any worse, please bleep the registrar on call.

More sentences with bleep

  • Are you bleeping kidding me? That's the amount of rent we agreed!From the entry bleeping
  • His tirade contained a torrent of expletives that were bleeped out by his press service.2023 May 5, Unknown, “Wagner Group 'to pull out of Bakhmut'”, in RTHK. From the entry bleep out
  • As we exited the observatory's parking lot, the truck's computer monitor started bleeping angrily.2021 August 3, Stephen Kurczy, “The Truth About the Quietest Town in America”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications…. From the entry go berserk
  • So the Lost Star’s bleep has been sounding for eighty years, and no ship has reached her.1979, Frank Northen Magill, Survey of Science Fiction Literature, Salem Press, →ISBN, page 937. From the entry supercee
  • Or more specifically, to bleep only part of a potentially offensive word in a broadcast-news story or to let it all hang out?July 29, 2015, Paul Farhi, Article: Wait wait - can you say that on air? There's a debate on cursing at NPR. Washington Post. From the entry let it all hang out
  • These mods, while usually having the distinctive bleep and beep quality of transistor-generated tones, are often astonishingly creative and rich in expressive nuances.2003, Rene T. A. Lysloff; Leslie C. Gay, Jr., Music and Technoculture, page 38. From the entry mod
  • A technique that resurfaces as late as Electric Cafe, where The Telephone Song is made up of 'phone bleeps and telecommunication bloopery.2001, Andrew Darlington, I was Elvis Presley's Bastard Love-child, page 129. From the entry bloopery
  • I was about to go, I thought I’d tootle down to the Coleherne perhaps, then I wouldn’t be too far away if the bleep went.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 10, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 221. From the entry tootle
  • You know the sort of stuff I mean — the shots of blinking instrument panels, of wildly bleeping computers, of cryptic messages clattering in square type-faces across television screens.1979 May 25, Vincent Canby, “Screen: ‘Alien’ Brings Chills From the Far Galaxy”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry type-face

Meaning of bleep

  1. noun A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
  2. noun A general euphemism for any expletive.
  3. noun A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.

Full definition of bleep

Questions about bleep in a sentence

How do you use bleep in a sentence?
Bleep is used as a noun and verb. For example: “What the bleep are you doing?”
What is a short sentence with bleep?
“What the bleep are you doing?”
What does bleep mean?
Bleep means a brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.

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