How to Use bleep in a Sentence

bleep

1 of 2 noun
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  • In the clip, her mouth was covered so what the bleep meant was unclear.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The entire slogan for the last couple of years could be: What the (bleep) is going on?
    — John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2020
  • That’s a first for the daring Elohim, and the melty melodies, kaleidoscopic synths and bleep-bloop beats are a big, moody win.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 18 Mar. 2022
  • And his passion can only be measured with a bleep-o-meter.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 16 May 2017
  • But he’s also supported stuff like lower taxes for the rich and bombing the (bleep) out of the Middle East.
    — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 20 Aug. 2017
  • One way to figure out what the (bleep) is going on is to seek out books that allow the reader to understand the world more clearly.
    — John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2020
  • Can’t let this (bleep) keep lingering, (bleeping) around and keep trying to hit people.
    — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 May 2017
  • Some of our finest Ivy League baseball executives could devise a test to establish once and for all whether Manfred knows (bleep) about the game of baseball.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The camera operators did pull back to a wide shot for those watching at home, but there was no time to bleep when Lavigne let off a couple of F-bombs to get the woman off the stage.
    — Karen Bliss, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
  • A bit of a failure upon its opening in 1997, The Fifth Element—in all its bleep-bloop orange-haired space-taxi glory—has since burrowed into our hearts.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 13 July 2017
  • This is a making chicken salad out of chicken bleep decision.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 31 July 2020
  • With stardom just a compromise away, Ani DiFranco chides her fans, goofs on the media, and wishes major labels would get the bleep off her answering machine.
    — Jonathan Van Meter, SPIN, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The syndrome didn’t really garner much attention until a study published in 2005 in the New England Journal of Medicine essentially said what the bleep is this?
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2021
  • The longest bleep in Oscar history silenced his exchange with Rock and Rock is now looking genuinely taken aback.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Real journalists are obviously quite busy because a lot bleep is happening in the world.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
  • However, keeping an eye on companies doesn’t mean make bleep up just to discredit vaccines.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Later, donning a lab coat, Oviedo poses as the mad scientist who invented hoop earrings as a bleep deflector, preventing the verbal bleep of other people from getting into the ear.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2023
  • She was made to miss three days of committee meetings for peppering live debate with her audible remote reference to one of the four previously referenced senators--Trent Garner of El Dorado--as a dumb-bleep.
    — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2021
  • In the clip, her mouth was covered so what the bleep meant was unclear.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The entire slogan for the last couple of years could be: What the (bleep) is going on?
    — John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2020
  • That’s a first for the daring Elohim, and the melty melodies, kaleidoscopic synths and bleep-bloop beats are a big, moody win.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 18 Mar. 2022
  • And his passion can only be measured with a bleep-o-meter.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 16 May 2017
  • But he’s also supported stuff like lower taxes for the rich and bombing the (bleep) out of the Middle East.
    — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 20 Aug. 2017
  • One way to figure out what the (bleep) is going on is to seek out books that allow the reader to understand the world more clearly.
    — John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2020
  • Can’t let this (bleep) keep lingering, (bleeping) around and keep trying to hit people.
    — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 May 2017
  • Some of our finest Ivy League baseball executives could devise a test to establish once and for all whether Manfred knows (bleep) about the game of baseball.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The camera operators did pull back to a wide shot for those watching at home, but there was no time to bleep when Lavigne let off a couple of F-bombs to get the woman off the stage.
    — Karen Bliss, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
  • A bit of a failure upon its opening in 1997, The Fifth Element—in all its bleep-bloop orange-haired space-taxi glory—has since burrowed into our hearts.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 13 July 2017
  • This is a making chicken salad out of chicken bleep decision.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 31 July 2020
  • With stardom just a compromise away, Ani DiFranco chides her fans, goofs on the media, and wishes major labels would get the bleep off her answering machine.
    — Jonathan Van Meter, SPIN, 8 Apr. 2023
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bleep

2 of 2 verb
  • They bleeped half the words in the interview!
  • The doctor is not in the office today, but I can bleep her for you.
  • The president of the United States shouldn’t have to be bleeped out.
    — Katharine Q. Seelye and Bill Pennington, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017
  • While CBS blurred and bleeped the vulgar word for the broadcast, many viewers took offense.
    — Peter Wade, Esquire, 6 May 2017
  • Names have been bleeped from audio and blacked out on documents.
    — Ken Ritter, Fox News, 13 June 2018
  • The offending word, however, was bleeped by CBS and Colbert's mouth was blurred when the show aired.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 24 May 2017
  • Ricky Gervais, who returned as host for the fifth time, was bleeped not once, but twice, during his monologue.
    — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2020
  • Objectionable words were not used by NFL Films or bleeped out.
    — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Might want to choose that [expletive] wisely, man, [rather] than [bleeping] with me.
    — Alysha Tsuji, For The Win, 5 June 2018
  • Many in the audience stood and cheered, while TV censors quickly bleeped out the offending words.
    — Rob Gilles, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2018
  • Mila then claims Ashton is going to get laid for saying that, or at least get something that was naughty enough to be bleeped.
    — Abby Draper, baltimoresun.com, 30 May 2017
  • Can’t let this (bleep) keep lingering, (bleeping) around and keep trying to hit people.
    — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 May 2017
  • Tia Fun fact: Tia is a friend of Raven Gates, a true spitfire, one of the few women to get bleeped out (which is, in my estimation, a positive).
    — Justin Kirkland, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2018
  • When the segment was broadcast, the offending word was bleeped out, but it was left uncensored on the clip that was posted online.
    — John Koblin, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • This is our (bleeping) city, and nobody’s going to dictate our freedom.
    — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 23 June 2017
  • The outraged woman unleashed a string of bleeped dialogue.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 29 May 2017
  • Things would have been downright tame if HBO hadn’t strayed from last year’s game plan to bleep out profanity while documenting the Browns.
    — Jon Becker, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2019
  • But in this amusing, pointed romp, Grandad Claxon is little more than a tuft of hair in a high-tech wheelchair, a rolling life-support system that bleeps and hisses and leaks.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Worst bleep During her speech, McDormand got bleeped several times by the censors.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2018
  • And why was Eminem out there rapping an almost 20-year-old song that had to be repeatedly bleeped because of its Trump-like language?
    — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 15 Feb. 2020
  • The expletive was bleeped out before reaching three million or so viewers.
    — Joe Flint, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2020
  • As further proof of her saltiness, Ms. McSally offers up an old, bleeped out quote from a news article.
    — Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
  • At any rate, Travolta still brought a different kind of error to the broadcast, forcing censors to bleep out his swearing.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The baby was sleeping in a plastic case, on her side, wrapped in a blanket, machines bleeping and whooping around her—breathing on her own, with the monitors above her.
    — Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
  • A word is bleeped during an acceptance speech or performance.
    — Bridget Mallon, ELLE Decor, 12 Feb. 2016
  • The doors now have additional sensors that bleep and blink when a person places a hand or pinky finger into the doorjamb, preventing the door from closing.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Viewers got even more info during Cohen's after-show segment, where the conversation was even more relaxed (and the curse words didn't have to be bleeped).
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 30 May 2017
  • For Twitter, Chrissy shared a video clip of her famously bleeped Grammys red carpet moment.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 26 Jan. 2020
  • But unfortunately for us, all of the juicy info is effectively bleeped out.
    — Raisa Bruner, Time, 11 Oct. 2017
  • And if Nelson Cruz catches that ball in Game bleeping 6, this contract extension feels different.
    — Mac Engel, star-telegram, 7 June 2018

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