bray
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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
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
Every time I hear her bray, I can’t help but laugh.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
He let out a long bray and started wringing his tail.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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
A donkey named Henry brays from a side yard.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2021
She beams and scowls, brays and bleeds, shatters and disintegrates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2018
“His name is Charrito,” Pita said, interpreting the beast’s thunderous brays.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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Life Is So Good
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The Magician's Nephew
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