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How to use toot in a sentence

23 example sentences · noun, verb

Toot means the noise of a horn or whistle. Example: “He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention.”

Examples of toot by meaning

nounThe noise of a horn or whistle.

  • He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention.

nounA portion of cocaine that a person snorts.

  • So he took a toot.1981, New York Magazine, volume 14, number 35, page 30

nounRubbish; tat.

  • I'm not paying fifty pounds for this load of old toot!

nounA message on the social networking software Mastodon.

  • As for layout, Mastodon feels a little like TweetDeck, with columns for your toots, toots from the people you follow, your mentions, and (unlike Twitter) a timeline of all public posts being shared by every user on the platform.2017 April 4, Madison Malone Kircher, “What the Heck Is Mastodon, and Why Is Everyone Talking About It?”, in New York Magazine
  • Interestingly, Mastodon offers a bit more in that aspect for toots can be 500 characters long.2017 April 5, “Mastodon is here; will you stop tweeting and start tooting?”, in The Indian Express
  • Mastodon users can send toots with 500 characters as opposed to Twitter's 140.2017 April 5, Jack Morse, “Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon”, in Mashable Australia

verbTo cause a horn or whistle to produce a noise.

  • We tend not to 'toot' them because it seems that only makes them more likely to run across the track."2025 August 20, Paul Clifton, “A driver's eye view of East West Rail”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 33

verbTo snort (a recreational drug).

  • I had graduated from the simple tooting cocaine up my nose to smoking it, which was a completely different experience and animal.2008, Robert L. Glover, Street Corner Symphony: An American Story, page 65

verbTo post a message on a Mastodon instance.

  • Only want to toot in the Animal Rights instance?2017 April 5, Jack Morse, “Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon”, in Mashable Australia
  • One alternative to Fist is Mastodon, which looks and behaves a bit like Twitter (you don’t tweet, you “toot”).2018 February 8, Marie Boran, “Why tweet when you can toot on Mastodon”, in The Irish Times
  • Each instance has its own administrator and its own code of conduct, so make sure you read up before you toot.2018 August 24, Beth Skwarecki, “A Beginner's Guide to Mastodon”, in Lifehacker

More sentences with toot

  • Not to toot my own horn, but I already knew all that.From the entry toot one's own horn
  • The train's about to leave; you'd better get down here toot sweet!From the entry toot sweet
  • The train's about to leave; you'd better get down here toot suite!From the entry toot suite
  • Not to toot our own horn, but we def had Austin Powers on VHS.2023 September 19, Chaise Sanders, “50 Best Halloween Costumes of All Time, From the Classics to the Truly Unique”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry def
  • She full-stopped, then drove up behind him, flashed her lights and tooted her horn.1999 August 26, Paul Chefurka, “Dumbest tickets ever: What's yours?”, in rec.autos.makers.honda (Usenet), archived from the original on 10…. From the entry full-stop
  • Another back pat and a horn toot to the Democrat for accentuating the positive.1992 May 29, Yvonne White, “Thanks for positive stories”, in Tallahassee Democrat, 87th year, number 150, page 8A. From the entry back pat
  • With a toot on the flute and a twiddle on the fiddle, O!1939, The Nineteenth Century and After, volume CXXVI, page 76. From the entry twiddle
  • She “tooted her bazoo” in concert with Hon.2017 May 1, Peter Jensen Brown, quoting Leavenworth Weekly Times, July 21, 1870, “Bazoo, Kazoo, Bazooka”, in Early Sports and Pop Culture…. From the entry bazoo
  • 'Tout de suite' is a french phrase meaning in a hurry and pronounced the same as the english 'toot sweet'.2014 August 30, Siri Crews, “Think Like a Rock”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022. From the entry triple entendre
  • You frequently toot your own horn about helping a bunch of people out, you adopted a dog who (sadly) later died from some guy who died.2021 November 8, jmcquown, “I have a new JOB Interview Friday or Monday!”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet). From the entry in dire straights
  • Rather than tooting accomplishments, the underbragger manages to seen humble while still getting out the overall message, “Look at what I’m doing.” It is a question of tone.2013, Craig Detweiler, iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives, Baker Publishing Group, page 143. From the entry underbrag
  • With a toot on her chime whistle, No. 6 set her 3 ft. 9 in. drivers turning and we were off round the curve through Pennyburn works.1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 353. From the entry driver

Meaning of toot

  1. noun The noise of a horn or whistle.
  2. noun A fart; flatus.
  3. noun Cocaine.

Full definition of toot

Questions about toot in a sentence

How do you use toot in a sentence?
Toot is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention.”
What is a short sentence with toot?
“So he took a toot.”
What does toot mean?
Toot means the noise of a horn or whistle.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toot (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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