bray

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

Oh, and there’s the detective Benoit Blanc, Daniel Craig’s Southern detective, along for the ride to solve for x with his distinctive Foghorn Leghorn bray and spoilery self-satisfaction.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022

And so the words died away into a donkey's bray.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

“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

Flockhart brays and Quinto bellows at harrowing volume.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2022

Sea lion brays carried from Pier 39 as Emily and James walked up to their building after school.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman