Example Sentences
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Recent Examples of blat
Zoe Collins Rath, Austin American Statesman, 14 Mar. 2026 Crews were blatting the flames to avoid impacts to neighboring businesses. —Nikiya Carrero, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026 Your problem is that you were raised on fantasies of blatting muscle cars and Bueller-esque Ferrari Daytonas, and don’t know how to find something fun, affordable, and unexpected. —Brett Berk, GQ, 26 June 2017
Verb
Top 6: Perez gets A&M insurance Mya Perez blats an two-run home run to extend A&M's lead 7-1, but back-to-back flyouts end the inning. —Zoe Collins Rath, Austin American Statesman, 14 Mar. 2026 Crews were blatting the flames to avoid impacts to neighboring businesses. —Nikiya Carrero, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026 Your problem is that you were raised on fantasies of blatting muscle cars and Bueller-esque Ferrari Daytonas, and don’t know how to find something fun, affordable, and unexpected. —Brett Berk, GQ, 26 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blat
Verb
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Behar exclaimed, referring to her cohost, who each talked about their experiences taking GLP-1s.— Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
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Trump exclaimed on Truth Social after his initial call for help was rebuffed.— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
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On Saturday night, a great roar of affirmation, actually several great roars, answered that question.— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2026
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The wind suddenly picked up with a roar.— Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 18 Apr. 2026
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Is there a polite way to ask her to address this, short of shouting or splashing?— Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
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Biff shouts at him at the show’s excruciating climax) sways between light and dark, between the road and the deadly shoulder, advancing through his last hours on earth as if through the stations of the cross.— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
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Native to North America, eastern screech-owls are mostly gray, reddish-brown or brown with yellow eyes, according to the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute.— Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2026
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This causes a blast of high-energy radiation called a gamma-ray burst (GRB), a final screech of gravitational waves, and sends out a spray of neutron-rich matter, which allows a process to occur that generates very heavy but unstable elements.— Robert Lea, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2026
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Teal'c takes out some frustrations on an unlucky grunt who bangs him with a door at the start of every time loop, and O'Neill gets to (temporarily) sample the will-they side of his will-they-won't-they relationship with Carter.— Daryl Baxter, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2026
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The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader reported that the family also experienced foul odors and heard pig grunts in the home.— Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 12 Apr. 2026
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Big Mistakes opens with the sounds of Laurie Metcalf bellowing about the indignities of death.— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
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Andrej Stojaković, bellowing with joy.— Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
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Junior Heifers One building was filled with the almost deafening hum of high-power hair dryers and the occasional moo.— Chris Torres, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Jan. 2026
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How moo moo came to be be The Facebook group and the resulting moo moo movement began with a conversation between Huckins and a friend, according to both women.— Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
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My father mistakes it for the verb to bray, like a donkey.— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Blat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/blat. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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