How to Use bleep in a Sentence

bleep

1 of 2 noun
  • But isn’t that the joy of late night — the things that sneak through the bleeps?
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 16 May 2025
  • But that was more like the emotion of the shot, and this is a cool (bleep) ref.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2026
  • In the clip, her mouth was covered so what the bleep meant was unclear.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023
  • What is another kick in the (bleep)?
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The notion that this could be a fad or a bleep on the screen was very real.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2023
  • It must be fixed or the course correction is going to be a (bleep).
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025
  • You guys create more damn narratives that are full of (bleep).
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Above him are the stars, bleep-bleeping away from the depths of untenanted space.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Like many folks of a certain age, my love of video games was born amid the bleeps and bloops of an arcade.
    Simon Hill, Wired News, 26 June 2025
  • Taylor also earned the distinction of the first bleep of the awards show.
    Melissa Locker, Time, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Any player worth a bleep is not playing in the third quarter of a preseason game.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Springer quickly learned that booking guests who required bleeps boosted ratings.
    Matthew Jordan, Fortune, 2 May 2023
  • And didn’t give a (bleep) what others thought of him taking Nix as the sixth quarterback in the first round.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Computers bleep and bloop as two cameras on the telescope start and stop eight-minute exposures.
    Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • This is a making chicken salad out of chicken bleep decision.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 31 July 2020
  • One way to figure out what the (bleep) is going on is to seek out books that allow the reader to understand the world more clearly.
    John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2020
  • That’s a first for the daring Elohim, and the melty melodies, kaleidoscopic synths and bleep-bloop beats are a big, moody win.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 18 Mar. 2022
  • However, keeping an eye on companies doesn’t mean make bleep up just to discredit vaccines.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2021
  • More all-sky radio surveys have come online, and observers now know to wait for the slow blips and bleeps of LPTs.
    Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Their small sounds and snuffles were barely audible above the lilting bleeps of incubators in the neonatal ward.
    Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Star defensive end Zach Allen told me last season that (bleepity, bleeps) need not apply.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2026
  • No one wants to work at a place where criminals get everything for free and then treat the people taking care of them, literally, like bleep.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 May 2024
  • Real journalists are obviously quite busy because a lot bleep is happening in the world.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
  • On a busy night at Button Mash in Echo Park, a thousand different bleeps jangle the air.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Failing to recognize your role in at least allowing others to treat you like bleep may simply allow what happened to happen again in the future.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Aguirre’s interviews are carefully edited with bleeps, censoring the ‘cabr—s’, the ‘hijos de p—s’ and ‘carambas’.
    Colin Millar, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • The good news is that most people will recover after four to seven days of a holy bleep experience without requiring any treatment.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
  • Throughout, Rosalía continues her own tradition of pairing handclaps and melisma with bleeps and bangs.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The jangling bleeps and bloops of the arcade game, meanwhile, come to form a score of sorts, a sonic diversion from the real world closing in on Cristian.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
  • There’s never been a better long-form tool for exploring complex ideas than these rectangular objects made of thin wood slices (or imaginary bleeps and bloops on a Kindle).
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024

bleep

2 of 2 verb
  • They bleeped half the words in the interview!
  • The doctor is not in the office today, but I can bleep her for you.
  • Names have been bleeped from audio and blacked out on documents.
    Ken Ritter, Fox News, 13 June 2018
  • Above him are the stars, bleep-bleeping away from the depths of untenanted space.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
  • She was bleeped in the middle of her sentence, but the rest of the message came through loud and clear.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And while part of her sentiment was bleeped out by the network, the swear word remained on air.
    Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
  • West asked, with further remarks also being bleeped out.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The president of the United States shouldn’t have to be bleeped out.
    Katharine Q. Seelye and Bill Pennington, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Can’t let this (bleep) keep lingering, (bleeping) around and keep trying to hit people.
    Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 May 2017
  • Ricky Gervais, who returned as host for the fifth time, was bleeped not once, but twice, during his monologue.
    New York Times, 5 Jan. 2020
  • The expletive was bleeped out before reaching three million or so viewers.
    Joe Flint, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Coughing, she was also bleeped for some colorful language.
    Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2026
  • Mila then claims Ashton is going to get laid for saying that, or at least get something that was naughty enough to be bleeped.
    Abby Draper, baltimoresun.com, 30 May 2017
  • Objectionable words were not used by NFL Films or bleeped out.
    Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2019
  • When the segment was broadcast, the offending word was bleeped out, but it was left uncensored on the clip that was posted online.
    John Koblin, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • On the other hand, Erin Doherty did not have the luxury of having her f-bomb bleeped.
    Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Many in the audience stood and cheered, while TV censors quickly bleeped out the offending words.
    Rob Gilles, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2018
  • But unfortunately for us, all of the juicy info is effectively bleeped out.
    Raisa Bruner, Time, 11 Oct. 2017
  • At any rate, Travolta still brought a different kind of error to the broadcast, forcing censors to bleep out his swearing.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Worst bleep During her speech, McDormand got bleeped several times by the censors.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2018
  • The offending word, however, was bleeped by CBS and Colbert's mouth was blurred when the show aired.
    Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 24 May 2017
  • The British actress immediately gets bleeped in her acceptance speech.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The doors now have additional sensors that bleep and blink when a person places a hand or pinky finger into the doorjamb, preventing the door from closing.
    Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • The baby was sleeping in a plastic case, on her side, wrapped in a blanket, machines bleeping and whooping around her—breathing on her own, with the monitors above her.
    Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
  • The 2026 awards show censors failed to completely bleep out an F-bomb during Sunday's live show.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
  • For Twitter, Chrissy shared a video clip of her famously bleeped Grammys red carpet moment.
    Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 26 Jan. 2020
  • Some international telecasts ran it without being bleeped.
    Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Viewers got even more info during Cohen's after-show segment, where the conversation was even more relaxed (and the curse words didn't have to be bleeped).
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 30 May 2017
  • Paltrow continued, causing the show to bleep her profanity, according to E!
    Helen Murphy, PEOPLE.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • And why was Eminem out there rapping an almost 20-year-old song that had to be repeatedly bleeped because of its Trump-like language?
    Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 15 Feb. 2020

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