How to Use beep in a Sentence

beep

1 of 2 verb

• She beeped at me first.
• Why did you beep your horn at her?
• Something is beeping in the kitchen.
• I could hear a beeping noise.
• The switch is bad if the meter doesn't beep with the switch flipped to On.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 21 Oct. 2020
• The switch is bad if the meter doesn’t beep with the switch flipped to On.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2022
• The woman beeped her horn and swerved to avoid a crash.
  — John Benson, cleveland.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• The tank shuts off and makes a beeping noise when full.
  — Elizabeth Marino, Peoplemag, 30 July 2023
• The switch is good if the meter beeps with the switch in the On position.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2019
• The scooter beeps to tell you it’s unlocked and ready to ride.
  — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 5 July 2018
• And the time crystal then comes in and does beep bop beep bop beep bop.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 3 May 2023
• Or set a timer to beep at the top of every hour as a reminder to move.
  — Pam Moore, Time, 22 Feb. 2021
• Chip jokes as Joanna drives through the cheering crowd and beeps the horn.
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, PEOPLE.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Two-and-a-half hours of hold music later, the line beeped and went silent.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 24 Apr. 2020
• This is the beeping thing that floats off when a vessel sinks.
  — Curbed, 21 June 2023
• Then the driver of the rear car began beeping his horn.
  — Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2018
• Every time the car beeped my husband joked that this was my dream—to have the car do the nagging for me.
  — Donna Duarte-Ladd, Woman's Day, 18 June 2014
• When the eggs go into the boiling water and the timer starts, a progress bar lights up and the timer will flash and beep when the eggs are done.
  — Jean Kressy, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2019
• As cars behind us beeped and honked, the light cycled from green to yellow to red time and again.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
• Expect the sounds of midway barkers as games beep and buzz.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
• Her husband at the wheel threatens to beep his horn at Eminem and his crew.
  — Megan Armstrong, Billboard, 12 Oct. 2017
• Stan Lee’s beeps came from a marsh beyond long rows of vegetable crops.
  — Gena Steffens, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
• That means buyers are willing to spend that much for a tracker that doesn’t beep.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 Feb. 2022
• The noise of the pulses is like the beat of a metronome or a very fast elevator that beeps at every floor.
  — Chloe Malle, Vogue, 2 May 2018
• Only this time, the game is dark – nothing is beeping, lit up, or whirring.
  — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 21 June 2017
• The beeping warnings for quakes went off on their cellphones.
  — Yuri Kageyama, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2024
• Smartphones are designed to flash and beep the moment an alert is issued for our area.
  — Dennis Mersereau, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• One time, there were cars and chaotic traffic and noise, beeping horns.
  — Peter Flax, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2017
• Your laptop, desktop, tablet, phone, or smart display will beep when the timer runs out!
  — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 5 June 2021
• Try an old-fashioned alarm clock in your bedroom so there’s nothing beeping there.
  — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024

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beep

2 of 2 noun

• Please leave a message after the beep.
• Don’t wait for the beep: Voicemail is going the way of the dinosaurs.
  — Ethan Baron, Philly.com, 20 May 2018
• Press the round button on the controller until a beep sounds and the lights turn on.
  — Tiffany Dodson, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Feb. 2023
• Please leave your name and number in a civil tone at the beep.
  — Chris White, The Courier-Journal, 21 July 2017
• All sorts of beeps and bonks and buzzes went off from the machine to which I was tethered.
  — Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2020
• The eggs emit a beep to help the kids find them, and volunteers are on hand to help if need be.
  — Jennifer Bolton, Houston Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2018
• In the event of a fire, this smoke detector will sound off the alarm with a loud, 85-decibel beep.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2023
• A few minutes later, beep, your watch ticks off the forth mile—still on pace.
  — Cory Smith, Outside Online, 29 Oct. 2019
• The sweep and beeps and new attempts will go on for several weeks.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Jan. 2019
• For a few seconds Nixon didn’t speak, the beep of a package scanner in the background.
  — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2020
• There’d be no need for anyone to use an app to scan for trackers or wait to hear a beep.
  — Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 4 May 2023
• Out of the basement, the beeps and honks of the synth danced around one another, just as the voices did in Paris some 900 years ago.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Then there are odd beep, clicks and call center chatter in the background.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2022
• The only sounds are clunking crates, the beep of reversing trucks, and the soft thud of a jogger’s gait.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appetit, 24 Apr. 2017
• The only sounds are clunking crates, the beep of reversing trucks, and the soft thud of a jogger’s gait.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appetit, 24 Apr. 2017
• The quiet huff of snow and wind is broken by the distant thunder of avalanche bombs, and the beep and scrape of snowplows.
  — Heather Hansman, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• The bases and home plate also beep so that they can be found audibly.
  — Emily Himes, miamiherald, 2 July 2018
• Ignore that, and the system will get your attention with a beep.
  — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2018
• In one swift motion, Molly slams the clipboard on the steering wheel, making the car horn beep.
  — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• The steady beep of a medical monitor droned in the background.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2022
• As the beeps intensified, Brooks plucked the long, greenish snake from under a clump of sage.
  — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 5 June 2017
• What makes this timer special are its jumbo-size numbers and loud beep.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• Blood pressure, oxygen level and then, the beep of the thermometer.
  — Jessica Contrera, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2020
• One beep every minute means that the battery is low and five beeps every minute means that the monitor is at the end of its life.
  — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2023
• The beep is heard by the umpire through an earpiece, giving him time for a quick ball strike reaction.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2019
• The Apple TV remote also needs a find my iPhone like beep function as well.
  — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2017
• But the biggest distraction from the cabin's calm was a multitude of beeps and alarms.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 24 Aug. 2023
• The alarm itself is similar to the Jall’s, providing a nice and loud beep that isn’t too startling.
  — Kai Burkhardt, CNN Underscored, 19 Feb. 2021
• Taurus April 20 – May 20 Beep, beep — that’s your cosmic alarm clock, Taurus!
  — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
• Re-gripping for 10 seconds and then again letting go, the third alert occurred at 11 seconds, but with an audible beep this time.
  — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024