ululate
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When women’s voices ululate, they do so, in different regions of the world, to celebrate, to mourn, to pray, to warn, to seduce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2020
The horseman howl and ululate in triumph while the Unsullied bang their spears on the ground in unison.
From Salon ● May 20, 2019
At that point, as though suddenly realizing that there were dramatic circumstances at hand, the local jamming installations swung into action, commencing to howl and ululate with a doubled fury.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 17, 2014
The man who married Trotsky's secretary made his most interesting and rebellious characters girls: the piratical sisters, the Amazons, who "rattle our sabres to frighten the neighbours", ululate ferociously beneath their bonnets rouges.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2010
Then she placed her forehead on mine and began to ululate, but softly.
From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
It’s possible to forget that, sunk into some plush seat while a chorus line ululates, but threat remains.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2020
She starts screaming in Farsi, then ululates at ear-piercing timbre.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2015
"Why?" ululates Edwards, shaking his head like an aggrieved outreach worker, but, when confronted, nobody seems to know.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013
The singer, here the vibrantly theatrical countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, sometimes echoes, sometimes ululates and sometimes disintegrates into a pained, nearly silent scream.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2012
With a maximum of temptation she ululates the ditties of the Gershwin brothers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Who knew that Martians, inside monstrous tripodal machines taller than many buildings, actually ululated, that they made eerily haunting "ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla" sounds?
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2021
Women ululated, fathers and uncles rushed to lift the returnees into the air amid shouts of joy.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
Yemeni refugees cheered and ululated as their plane dipped towards Aden, returning them to a precarious life in their home city three weeks after fighting there ended and months after most of them fled.
From Reuters ● Aug. 11, 2015
Over an alien procession of sonorous percussion, tart winds and tremulous strings that blur into quarter-tones, the soprano Susan Narucki trilled, ululated and sang in French and an invented tongue.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2010
She put back her head and ululated, and everyone in camp turned to look.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Others surged towards the casket, dancing, clapping, ululating; all through tears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
Crowds gathered at the hospital, cheering and ululating to celebrate.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2023
The metro near Al Thumama Stadium became a pulsing dance party of Moroccans drumming on the windows and ululating in celebration.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
On “Mueve La Cadera,” he sculpted it into percussive babbling; on “Tarzan,” it was ululating yells; on “Suave,” high-pitched baby talk.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2021
Cupping her paws around her mouth she called in a ululating voice: “Logalogalogalogalog!”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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