bray

What he actually wrote was “dogs bark it, asses and mules bray it, and bilious bipeds whistle it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

Conductor in rehearsal: “Violins, you’re scratchy and flat! Trombones — don’t bray like mating zebras! Kettledrums, what extraordinarily horrendous noise! Xylophone: unbelievably grotesque — just quit! Otherwise — perfect.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022

Tako, for instance, refused to bray on cue even after they tried everything — putting a mirror in front of him or playing the sounds of other donkeys braying on speakers.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

Any time he appeared before reporters, they'd ask if "Curb" was coming back and he'd bray some indifferent punchline that would be dutifully quoted.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2018

And so the words died away into a donkey's bray.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

“Look how much Canadians hate the United States now,” brays a February Politico headline.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

Having dismissed her work as merely decorative, a fierce Italian gives harsh advice to an ambitious young painter: “You need to be a monster,” he brays.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2024

Listen to the harrowing brays of the donkey in Ruben Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sadness,” a satire in which the obnoxious, self-serving guests of a luxury cruise end up stranded on a desert island.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2023

Flockhart brays and Quinto bellows at harrowing volume.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2022

Sea lion brays carried from Pier 39 as Emily and James walked up to their building after school.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman