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bray

[brey] / breɪ /
VERB
whinny
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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

Every time I hear her bray, I can’t help but laugh.

From Seattle Times Aug. 15, 2022

Leagues and team owners and sponsors will bray against it, because of their insatiable desire to make money, money and more money.

From New York Times Dec. 16, 2021

He let out a long bray and started wringing his tail.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

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

Flockhart brays and Quinto bellows at harrowing volume.

From Los Angeles Times May 2, 2022

A donkey named Henry brays from a side yard.

From Seattle Times Jun. 20, 2021

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

Restless, Belle brays again—a high-pitched “Heeee,” then “Haw.”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes




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