Sounded sheepish?

Usage examples of bleated.

As she walked she hiked her Mother Hubbard up to her knees, and she bleated her shrill terrible war cry: "Pu-raise Gawd fur vittory.

Betty, also watching as her twins suckled, bleated her longing for a drink.

Jennsen sat on blankets in the back of the wagon, comforting Betty as she bleated in misery.

Betty bleated her pleasure at the scratch, but it sounded to him like she would have preferred a snack.

Betty, front hooves on the chafing rail, bleated as she looked up at Jennsen, as if asking for her to reconsider.

Betty bleated and reluctantly hopped back down into the wagon bed, but she would settle for no less than a scratch behind the ears as consolation before she would lie down.

Betty bleated in dismay from beneath the wagon, hesitantly emerging only after Jennsen called repeated encouragement to her.

Betty, her floppy ears perked ahead in what Richard thought could only be a goat frown, peered down into the narrow chasm and bleated.

Betty, still standing in the doorway, watching intently, bleated her wish to come in.

Betty pushed her head against his chest as he scratched her ears, and bleated as if to say she was sorry.

When I was gay I gamboled where I would, banged heads with my brothers and bleated in the clover.

I whinnied and stamped and bared my teeth, bleated and barked and brayed.

A brass band bleated like two-score shophars in a storm of thunder -- my first experience of music.

Tears stung me, of embarrassment and doubt, but I would not shed them or sit down, I bleated a question after all: "If it's your brother -- if it's your brother you're playing against --" I saw his handsome jaw set.

I lowered my head to butt, bleated a warning, and hoofed the terrazzo floor.