Bleated is an English word. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bleated meaning
simple past and past participle of bleat
Using Bleated
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of bleat
- In the example corpus, bleated often appears in combinations such as: and bleated.
Context around Bleated
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bleated
- In this selection, "bleated" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, loudly stand out and add context to how "bleated" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include deportation they bleated and shallied and bleated out a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bleated" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bleated
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Yet the deluded, pretentious signatories couldn’t help themselves: ‘Windrush Generation members or Windrush descendants’ might face deportation, they bleated. (20 words)
Welby shilly-shallied and bleated out a weasel-worded formula claiming that Ineson had "not heard" his apology at a Lambeth Palace meeting. (23 words)
He closely monitored the ABC’s coverage of the Iraq War and bleated loudly each time he perceived transgressions of imbalance… time and again. (24 words)
He closely monitored the ABC’s coverage of the Iraq War and bleated loudly each time he perceived transgressions of imbalance… time and again. (24 words)
Welby shilly-shallied and bleated out a weasel-worded formula claiming that Ineson had "not heard" his apology at a Lambeth Palace meeting. (23 words)
Yet the deluded, pretentious signatories couldn’t help themselves: ‘Windrush Generation members or Windrush descendants’ might face deportation, they bleated. (20 words)
Example sentences (3)
Yet the deluded, pretentious signatories couldn’t help themselves: ‘Windrush Generation members or Windrush descendants’ might face deportation, they bleated.
Welby shilly-shallied and bleated out a weasel-worded formula claiming that Ineson had "not heard" his apology at a Lambeth Palace meeting.
He closely monitored the ABC’s coverage of the Iraq War and bleated loudly each time he perceived transgressions of imbalance… time and again.
Common combinations with bleated
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: