bray

The best he can muster against fellow contestant Yamil “Yam Yam” Arocho is to bray like a donkey in labor distress that Arocho is full of “big, thick, ‘Traitor’ doo-doo.”

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

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

Every time I hear her bray, I can’t help but laugh.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2022

Leagues and team owners and sponsors will bray against it, because of their insatiable desire to make money, money and more money.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2021

Happy hour was a good place to bray, to regenerate courage, and to be infected with the enthusiasm of other men who lived to fly.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

Fifty feet beneath the stamping of zebra hooves and the trumpeting brays of elephants at the Louisville Zoo, a man-made cavern carved out of Kentucky’s underbed sprawls through 17 subterranean miles of limestone.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2023

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

Restless, Belle brays again—a high-pitched “Heeee,” then “Haw.”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes