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Example Sentences

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In his snitty retraction letter to Prime Minister Carney, he brayed that Canada would thereby be excluded from “what will be the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled at any time.”

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2026

The locusts devoured Ibrahim’s small grazing plot as his donkeys brayed anxiously and goats scrambled to eat the remaining foliage.

From Reuters • Jan. 17, 2020

Alert Congress, they brayed, and cut public television’s funding.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2019

Trump and May, who were seen holding hands while strolling around the country estate as farm animals brayed in the distance, differed in both substance and style in the news conference.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2018

I fed Milk and Nothing and the chickens, and they all bleated and brayed and clucked at me for more.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff