What is "beeping"

Usage examples of "beeping".

There was a beeping sound behind her, and she glanced up at the mirror screen.

She could see the tollkeeper, a stocky man in jeans and a T-shirt, dashing across the pavement toward the beeping car.

The beeping and scraping of the traffic down on the avenue wandered up here.

Then it was the night-hawks that astonished him, those beautiful falcon-winged owl-colored birds, dashing after insects, beeping in a raspy, loud monotone.

The beepings could not be anything but a guide, a directional indicator, to be followed to M-387.

It left behind it a thin whining transmission which was not at all like the beepings of the asteroid transmitter.

At night he has a receiver tuned to the beepings to make sure he knows if the broadcast changes again.

The continuous beepings between repetitions of the second message were plainly a directional signal to be followed to the message source.

In theory, though, all we have to do now is swing onto our proper course and follow those beepings home.

Of course, there were also the beepings and the seventy-nine-minute-spaced identical broadcasts from farther out from the sun.

The directional receiver pointed to it had long since been turned dawn to its lowest possible volume, and still the beepings were loud.

Despite muting, the beepings from the loud-speakers were monstrous noises.

Even the machines responded, with eager low beepings and a blinking red light.

The whole ship must be—” Artoo Detoo cut him off in midspeech with some angry beepings and hoots of his own, though he continued to cut and pull with precision at the tangled high-voltage cables.