Late that afternoon, Flint was sitting quietly against his tree and using a Primos can call to make bleats.
—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
3 Dec. 2025
Busting out a box of instruments that turned the room into a riot of noise, Sheeran then encourage each student to share their unique sound into the mic, from saxophone bleats to fart sounds.
One hums with high-speed drills and anxiety; the other echoes with joyful barks and tail wags.
—
Henry I. Miller,
STAT,
28 Jan. 2026
On our third day, a late-afternoon beach landing on Sante Fe deposited us amid a colony of sleeping sea lions, their barks and coughs reverberating across the sandy shore.
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