How to Use toot in a Sentence

toot

1 of 2 verb
  • Stay safe out there, and toot toot!
    — Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Not to toot my own horn, but my predictions turned out to be spot-on.
    — Nicole Russell, USA TODAY, 4 July 2024
  • Who wouldn't want to wear a cool hat, toot the whistle and clickety-clack down the tracks?
    — Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • But there are plenty of people out there not tooting the truffle horn.
    — Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • And was the easiest of soft touches, but one who never tooted his own horn.
    — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
  • No surprise then that a company not averse to tooting its own horn spent much of the week horn-tooting.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The fans danced deliriously, tooting their vuvuzelas to the sky.
    — Liam Taylor, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The one thing Sarah Burton’s stubbornly bad at is tooting her own horn.
    — Sarah Mower, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2023
  • People were driving around tooting their horns in cars displaying orange, white and green flags.
    — CiarÁn Fahey, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Wait till the latter toot off their tops, as each of the 100 new puppets is full of surprises.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
  • And like Jay-Z on the original, Cardi takes time on the track to toot her own horn.
    — Chris Malone Méndez, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Now is the time to toot your own horn and target entrepreneurs looking for franchise opportunities.
    — Seth Lederman, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • The saga of phantom noises clapping through The View has seemingly tooted out.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Banging on a drum or tooting a horn can also relieve stress, reduce burnout, and help with anxiety and depression.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2024
  • When a car passes you on the single ribbon of road that loops around the eastern shoreline, the driver always gives a friendly wave or toot of the horn.
    — Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Even the driver of the 12-Folsom Muni line managed to toot his horn while having to go around.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Sep. 2021
  • People who are secure within themselves do not feel the need to continually toot their own horns the way your handsome, stylish husband does.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Only senior members of the royal family are supposed to toot around in the train — as well as the corgis that may outlive the queen against her wishes.
    — Curbed, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Shamet and Bridges have been close ever since, and while Bridges won’t toot his own horn on offense, Shamet abides by a different set of rules.
    — Kristian Winfield, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Steam engines bellowed into town, ringing the bell and tooting the train whistle to alert inhabitants that a new age of travel had arrived.
    — Curtis Varnell, arkansasonline.com, 22 Sep. 2024
  • In solidarity with thousands of protesters, people now often toot their car horns to the chant’s tune at traffic signals.
    — Quartz, 4 May 2022
  • So what if my personal imperatives mean rummaging in a cardboard box on the sidewalk while my dog tugs on her leash and the occasional passing car toots a hello?
    — Owen Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2024
  • About two dozen people held signs lambasting the billionaire outside a dealership in London as passing cars and trucks tooted horns in support.
    — Michael Liedtke, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
  • These days, however, the people of Turku are proudly tooting their own horn — at least as much as the naturally self-effacing Finns are able to.
    — Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The company touted its more than 1 billion followers on social media, as well as its marketing prowess, while also tooting its own horn.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The railroad rolls out all five of its Shay steam locomotives, tooting their whistles, chuffing black coal smoke, and fuming chutes of white steam through its piston valves and exhaust ports.
    — Mark Orwoll, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Last year’s solution was to hold the ceremony at a railway station, which gave the unfortunate impression that the guests could hardly wait to pack their bags, toot their whistles, and chug out of town.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
  • About two dozen protesters held signs lambasting Musk outside a Tesla dealership in London as passing cars and trucks tooted horns in support.
    — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, with a playfully experimental theme song for a fictional band, as horns toot away.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2024
  • Not to toot our own horn, but earlier this week, The Sports Desk highlighted VCU and High Point as teams to watch this week.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026

toot

2 of 2 noun
  • At that moment, Haines scooted over in her chair, which made a toot noise.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
  • The ideal push, according to Barten, feels more like a sneaky toot.
    — Julia Ries, SELF, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Setting action bricks along the track makes the train toot the horn, change direction, or turn the lights on or off.
    — Nena Farrell, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
  • But his most visible stock in trade was trouble — a marital fight, a star blurting a racist remark, a drunken toot.
    — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The clinks of silverware and the occasional toot of the train create a soothing soundscape.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Aug. 2021
  • When a car passes you on the single ribbon of road that loops around the eastern shoreline, the driver always gives a friendly wave or toot of the horn.
    — Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The driver waved his appreciation for the warning toot by throwing up a middle finger.
    — Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Even if zero toots escape, moving your body can, again, encourage those gut contractions that pass food through your bowels and toward your colon.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 26 Nov. 2024
  • While these farts don’t usually smell, Nielson says, certain prebiotics can trigger more pungent toots.
    — Caroline Tien, SELF, 26 Sep. 2024
  • To lock up, just walk out of that range; five seconds later the car locks, rearms the alarm, and confirms the maneuver with a single toot of the horn (unless the key has been left in the ignition).
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 31 Dec. 2022
  • As the flatbed truck carrying the bronze statue rumbled down East Jefferson Street, a toot of the truck’s horn prompted cheers and applause.
    — New York Times, 9 July 2021
  • On Monday, Bell posted a toot looking for volunteers to help him with security, support, and moderation on the instance.
    — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2022
  • With a toot of its horn and a metallic screech, the Alishan Forest Railway rumbles out of Chiayi, a midsize city in southern Taiwan.
    — Chris Schalkx, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The demon’s toot in Dante’s Inferno In canto 21, in some literal circle of hell or other, the poet sees a troop of demons sticking their tongues out as a signal to their head honcho.
    — Literary Hub, 4 May 2026

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