bray

Example Sentences

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As if to punctuate his asinine decision, Marin makes a braying donkey noise.

From Los Angeles Times

As they squawked and brayed, a narrator said: “This year, they march in protest. They are peaceful. They are flightless. But they are certainly not voiceless.”

From Los Angeles Times

All around me, the mules brayed to be free of their heavy packs.

From Literature

The tauntuan’s gentle face and braying cry definitely lend themselves to our responsiveness to it.

From Salon

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