verb
definition
Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound.
definition
Of a person, to complain.
example
The last thing we need is to hear them bleating to us about organizational problems.
noun
definition
A noise that bleats.
definition
Inane or plaintive chatter.
Examples of bleating in a Sentence
At that moment one of the goats darted by her, bleating in terror.
The goat was still on her side, pawing the ground with her forelegs and bleating miserably as she strained in vain.
The air is filled with the bleating of calves and sheep, and the hustling of oxen, as if a pastoral valley were going by.
Last night I was n't bleating from that kind of pain.
The big hit there was for Boyzone, whose lead singer Ronan Bleating was last seen singing karaoke at a wedding.
Anyway, I can imagine nothing more absurd than the sight of a 53 year old standing publicly bleating songs of adolescent angst.
Bleating noises from bureaucrats in Brussels who see their expense accounts under threat only tend to frighten children of a very timorous disposition.
A few seconds after each of these headlong descents a mysterious sound strikes his ear - compared by some to drumming, and by others to the bleating of a sheep or goat,' which sound evidently comes from the bird as it shoots downwards, and then only.