The goats, held in spasmodic restraint by Humbolt and Greeley and a little spotted dog which Casey had overlooked in his first inventory, were blatting inconsequently in the sage behind the garage.
Andy, riding slowly upon the outskirts of the grazing, blatting band, watched the two confer earnestly together a hundred yards or so away.
When the last sheep had passed, blatting discordantly, down the bluff, Weary halted the sweating herders for a parting admonition.
So I wish you boys would hang onto yourselves when you hear a sheep blatting under your window," he summed up his unburdening whimsically.
Sheep lagged, and the blatting increased to an uproar.
With the taste of hot biscuits and maple syrup still lingering pleasantly against their palates, they went out and were confronted with sheep, blatting sheep, stinking sheep, devastating sheep, Dot sheep.
As they galloped toward the sound and the smell, they expressed freely their opinion of sheep, the men who owned them, and the lunatics who watched over the blatting things.
Weary, when the band stopped and huddled, blatting incessantly against a sheer wall of sandstone and gravel, got the herders together and told them what he wanted.
He glanced once more at his companion, whose face was sullen and unresponsive; there was a well-defined bristle to his short mustache and he rowelled his horse cruelly when he shied at the blatting horde.
Many years in the sheep business had taught him into what small compass a band of sheep can be pressed, and he knew that, once thrown together in the dark cañon, they would stop their telltale blatting and go to sleep.
That is how it came about that the two friends rode into the outskirts of Silver Run with a little red yearling trailing behind them and "blatting its head off," as Dig expressed it.
It was not safe to leave the lead-rope tied to the fork of his saddle, for if the calf pulled when the saddle was empty, Poke immediately backed around preparatory to throwing his heels at the blatting young calf.
Illustration: "A man's plumb crazy to go round blatting all he knows"] The Happy Family BY B.
He's plumb crazy to go round blatting all he knows.
He toddled away, blatting intermittently about his friend Fitz, and Waddles knocked half the sand out of the bunker before he finally emerged, spitting gravel and adjectives.
The Major was with him every step of the way, blatting about his friend Fitzpatrick.
Whenever a blatting animal made a dash for liberty the dogs drove it into the press, barking and nipping.
These in turn spoke to the dogs, and the dogs began to nip the heels of the leader sheep, who resented the familiarity with loud blatting and lowering of heads.
So it came snorting and blatting to the other side and climbed up the bank.
A cow lowed impatiently at the pasture bars in answer to the querulous blatting of her calf.
It is: "'Whistling girls and blatting sheep Are the two best things a farmer can keep!
It was not that he was puzzled about the thing he saw--and which Rose had seen first--but at once Russ felt that he must discover a way to get the blatting object out of the mud.
He dragged the first one to the spot where the calf was blatting so pitifully.
But I bowled Mr. Wolf over, and then I ran after the other one and the blatting Bozie.
The anchor rumbled down to the blatting of wild goats on the cliffs, and the air we breathed was heavy with the perfume of flowers.
From the looming cliffs arose the blatting of wild goats, and overhead the first stars were peeping mistily through the ragged train of the passing squall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blatting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
