blipping

The rider spoke, an effect like the blipping of blank spots on a magnetic tape.

He did and, an instant later, Garrett heard it: a steady pip, like the blipping of an ancient oscilloscope.

Tegan found comfort in the constant blipping of the heart monitor on the wall, showing Charles's heartbeat as real proof her son was still with her.

And with the disk jockeys' blipping, buzzing, throbbing layers of electronic rhythm, the air seemed charged with futuristic possibilities.

They can't contact you, there's no long-distance blipping, they can't move or signal--" Squinting bitterly, Kirk taunted, "Maybe we're smarter than you are."

While Mr. Clarke often strummed an acoustic guitar onstage, the songs depend less on chords than on the blipping, pointillistic counterpoint that surrounds Mr. Bell's swooping baritone.

In January 1980, animator and science fiction fan Kevin Davies was working for Pearce Studios in Hanwell, West London, when he heard the blipping and bleeping of Star Wars droid R2D2 from the BBC cutting rooms down the corridor.