A kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles.
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Examples for "beep "
1 He waited for the beep that would let him leave another message.
2 The triple beep of an unanswered voice request sounding once a second.
3 In the background, Spencer heard Wren's coffeemaker beep that brewing had finished.
4 A single beep , and the tiny light switched from red to green.
5 Ignore that, and the system will get your attention with a beep .
1 He always goes off on a toot after a spell at sea.
2 So I don't actually care whether Gideon had a toot or not.
3 From a distance they heard the mournful toot of a large horn.
4 After a brief interval came the faint, far toot of a horn.
5 The Haverhill settlers listened for the ringing toot of Abraham Tyler's horn.
1 From the brilliantly lit social hall came a blare of music-hall melody.
2 The blare of the piano and all sounds of revelry had hushed.
3 The lights flash and the horns blare , as the local police arrive.
4 The deafening blare of generators came from the houses on either side.
5 At the sudden blare of trumpets, Madoc whirled and left the room.
1 The hum and the honk of a motor-car sounded in the street.
2 He heard the front door close and the honk of the horn.
3 After a minute or so I hear another honk , this one closer.
4 We found out why when we heard a horn honk behind us.
5 The warning honk had not given the Mistress time to turn out.
1 No claxon horns could be used, for that was the gas alarm.
2 James sent our WhatsApp group a video and we heard the boat claxon .
3 Faint above the incessant throbbing of explosions, the sound of a claxon horn.
4 The claxon sounded stridently, and the inflectionless voice of the robopilot said: "Sixty seconds."
5 Somewhere a claxon 's scream thinned to inaudibility.
6 Someone stood in the doorway blowing a shrill whistle, then there was again the clamour of a claxon near at hand.
7 Inquiries will be made as to who bought tickets for Claxon .
8 He heard Flora cry "Stop-stop," and the squawk of a Claxon horn.
9 What I expected at Claxon did not come to pass.
10 Dieter Volkers' Door Claxon is a beautifully clever combination of a doorknob and a doorbell.
11 They'll certainly be held up at Claxon .
12 Why can't we be married at Claxon ?
13 They are in microbuses and trucks and are keeping up a deafening wall of sound with their claxons .
14 I then called upon Mrs. Claxon .
15 Claxon is the better place.
16 It was Claxon 's one redemption.
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