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

Oh, and there’s the detective Benoit Blanc, Daniel Craig’s Southern detective, along for the ride to solve for x with his distinctive Foghorn Leghorn bray and spoilery self-satisfaction.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022

It was one thing to bray about his late mother — a multimillionaire with a maid and a Rolls-Royce — using All laundry detergent.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2020

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

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

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

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

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

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