bray
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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
Partners Stanlee and Bernie, who both like to bray, produced four of the 10 chicks, including Fyn, named for a type of vegetation found on the southern tip of Africa.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
Conductor in rehearsal: “Violins, you’re scratchy and flat! Trombones — don’t bray like mating zebras! Kettledrums, what extraordinarily horrendous noise! Xylophone: unbelievably grotesque — just quit! Otherwise — perfect.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022
He let out a long bray and started wringing his tail.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
“Look how much Canadians hate the United States now,” brays a February Politico headline.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
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 ● Apr. 14, 2024
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
“His name is Charrito,” Pita said, interpreting the beast’s thunderous brays.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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