What a silence in those old books as of a half-peopled world; what bleating of flocks; what green pastoral rest; what indubitable human existence!
Across brawling centuries of blood and war I hear the bleating of Abraham's flocks, the tinkling of the bells of Rebekah's camels.
Here while the port authorities made a swift inspection for stowaways and concluded their arrangements, we stopped a time, listening to the odd mixture of noise from bleating of sheep and hooting of our whistle.
The chirrup of sparrows, jubilate of larks, noises of poultry, bleating of lambs from an enclosure of young fruit trees close at hand, and the play of children, were all comely and reviving.
Then we went from it softly and ran hand in hand to the strand, While bleating of flocks and birds' piping made sweeter the land.
The fawn was bleating piteously, hungry and lonesome.
The boy was not half awake when he stumbled into the cold barn, and was greeted by the lowing and bleating and neighing of cattle waiting for their breakfast.
In those more than plaintive strains; But they 're not so dear to me As the murmur of the rill, And the bleating of the lambs On my own Highland hill.
The lambs would mistake the cry of the cow seal for the bleating of their mothers.
Can't tell the cry of a cow fur seal from the bleating of an old sheep," was the reply.
The bleating of sheep now made them forget all about the gloom of the forest.
The shepherd sees His flock come bleating home; the seaman hears Once more the cordage rattle.
The lattices were flung wide open, that he might see the trees tossing about their young leaves, and the grass like grass in paradise, and hear the bees humming among the apple-blooms, and the sheep bleating on the fells.
It will be cuckoo time directly my dear; and the lambs will be bleating on the fells, and the yellow primroses blowing under all the hedges.
The lambs and ewes were restless in the moonshine; their bleating filled the upper solitudes.
The bleating of lambs and ewes, the lowing of kine, these come up from the Machar that lies between the west slopes and the shoreless sea to the west; these ascend as the very smoke of sound.
By next day's dawn they ran down to the fair isle of Helios, and as they drew near they heard the lowing of oxen and the bleating of sheep.
The sheep are bleating amongst the mounded graves, and the curate is bleating at the lectern.
From the valley the bleating of sheep came up with a sudden wind, and the red roses flung their faces across the latticed casement.
Close to the house however was a wooden barn, from which issued the bleating which had so much gladdened the poor wanderer; and to this he directed his steps.
A chorus of hideous laughter, a swelling, bleating cacophony of execration, so furious and real that it froze the listeners' blood, answered the summons.
Old, heavy, grey-faced ewes were bleating and baaing, whilst skipping, capering and leaping about were some eight or nine lambs.
She was bleating beside a water-course, into which her kid of that spring had fallen, and whose rapid swell, filled by the recent storm, was too strong for the young creature.
The slow night hours passed; in the stillness that had succeeded to the storm of the past day there was not a sound except the bleating of the young goats straying from the herd.
I was on a sheep ranch in western Texas once when one of the sheep came bleating up to the camp late in the afternoon.
The neighing of horses, the howling of dogs and wolves, the mewing of cats, the bleating of sheep, the lowing of cows, the chattering of monkeys and baboons is nothing more nor less than their language.
My sheep-bells tinkle frae the west, My lambs are bleating near; But still the sound that I lo'e best, Alack!
And at the same time the bleating of sheep came to the heroes through the mist and the lowing of kine, near at hand, smote their ears.
The land of Cyclops lay in prospect near: The voice of goats and bleating flocks we hear, And from their mountains rising smokes appear.
Bleating and bawling, the band turned slowly and swung parallel to the cañon-rim.
The bleatingwill continue; and the hind, partly seeing and partly hearing, will bear down full tilt upon the man who has got her young, in her desire to rescue it.
They ran right under Nack-yal's legs and bumped against Shefford, and keptbleating their thin-piped welcome.
Joe drove the bobbing pack-train of burros into the cedars where the smoke of the hogans curled upward, and soon the whistling of mustangs, the barking of dogs, the bleating of sheep, told of his reception.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bleating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
