1.   Across the nation, shutter clicks are giving way to the beep of digital cameras.

2.   For Dana Burnard, work and motherhood are balanced on a teeter-totter easily tipped by the beep of her pager.

3.   Gone, for the most part, is the piercing beep of the forklift.

4.   Now he relies on the blips and beeps of computers and sonars to chart his course and find his fish.

5.   On Elm Street, where house after house was destroyed, the droning of bulldozers and the high-pitched warning beep of heavy equipment fill the air.

6.   The calls are usually in threes and can even imitate the beeps of a garbage truck backing up.

7.   The device, called a pinger, consists of a short piece of plastic pipe that emits sounds like the backup beeps of a garbage truck.

8.   Then I heard the beep of a cell phone being turned off.

9.   At the bombing site, the droning beep of cranes removing rubble ceased.

10.   Eighty-six years later, the beep, beep, beep of a sonar echoes across the same spot, like a heartbeat-monitor reassuring visitors they are safe.