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
They bray like a donkey when they laugh.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2021
So he reached back to his Broadway experience as Mozart in “Amadeus” — the composer was said to have stunned the imperial court in Vienna with his donkey’s bray of a laugh.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2019
From the mountainsides echoed the harsh donkey bray of gentoo penguins, the screech of skuas, and the bellowing of elephant seals.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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
And when his feat was thus complete – he’d won the Triple Crown, He heard the brays and whinnied praise for garnering renown.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2018
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
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Life Is So Good
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