“beeping” is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a short, repeated sound, usually made by a machine. For example, “The car alarm was beeping loudly in the street.”
One moment you are contentedly showering your enormous, overstretched self, or lying on a hard hospital bed with nothing much to do; the next all hell is breaking loose, the midwife screaming, rubber gloves flying, monitors beeping, partner fled to the loo, and the Mozart tape you brought to usher the new soul into the world completely beside the point.
HUNGARY is beeping ever louder on Washington's radar.
Sports administrators who fail to embrace technology may soon be hearing more than beeping in their ears.
Detectorists, often affiliated with local clubs, are known to comb the sceptred isle in search of buried booty, assisted by beeping gadgets.
Practices such as "beeping" are likely to continue for quite a while: when callers lack credit, they hang up after just one ring, a signal that they want to be called back.A few differences may remain within borders, suggests Kathryn Archibald, who works at Nokia and tries to understand consumers in different parts of the world.
Bigger, more comfortable, foreign-made vehicles would make it to their destinations, but, entirely unexpectedly, small, Yugoslav-made Yugos, beeping ferociously, would zip past them on steep, mountainous tracks.
TWO YEARS AGO, as Jetstar flight JQ57 came in to land in Singapore, the captain's mobile phone started beeping with incoming text messages.
Their three brides, all from nearby villages, had just arrived in a convoy of 30 cars, beeping horns and playing loud music in celebration, when a power generator failure prompted Abdullah to leave the house with one of his uncles to see what was wrong.
A couple of my neighbours set off fireworks from their balconies as the election results came in last night, while in the street below, motorists began beeping their horns as if Argentina had just won the World Cup, so elated are some to see the back of the governing Frente Para la Victoria (Victory Front).
"People with tinnitus hear a constant noise in their ears, a buzzing, beeping or whining.
Allen, who appeared in the pantomime Somewhere Over The Westway in Edinburgh on Tuesday, was at one point forced to compete with a beeping phone midway through his performance.
