beeped

Definition of beepednext
past tense of beep

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for beeped
Verb
  • On a chilly Austin morning, downtown buzzed with excitement earlier than usual for a Sunday.
    Aaron E Martinez, Austin American Statesman, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Two drones buzzed overhead, and a chopper was up.
    Paige Williams, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Bad dialogue, phoned in performances and a bafflingly amateurish script make this an easy skip on Netflix.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • In the Sunday storm this week, Wu phoned it in – literally.
    Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • A little more than a week before the 2026 Winter Olympics were set to begin, Annika and Niklas Malacinski dialed into a Zoom call from their World Cup event in Austria.
    Dana ONeil, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Consumption peaked across the region and the energy grid underwent an extreme weather stress test as homes and businesses dialed up thermostats against historic cold.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • At around lunchtime, the editor of the East African Standard telephoned the princess's secretary, Martin Charteris at the Outspan Hotel, which serves as a base for visiting Treetops, to ask if reports of King George VI's death were true.
    Hope Coke, Vanity Fair, 7 Feb. 2026
  • At 16, he was telephoned by Arsenal’s academy director Andries Jonker with an invitation to appear in a one-off trial match, where Ballard shone.
    Michael Walker, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
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“Beeped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beeped. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.

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