bray

Example Sentences

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“You’d best leave this mule alone, Flora,” I scolded, raising my voice to be heard over Lucky Pete’s piteous braying and hiccupping.

From Literature

And who is calling their agent, doing a different sort of braying?

From Los Angeles Times

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