bray

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

They bray like a donkey when they laugh.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2021

It was one thing to bray about his late mother — a multimillionaire with a maid and a Rolls-Royce — using All laundry detergent.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2020

So he reached back to his Broadway experience as Mozart in “Amadeus” — the composer was said to have stunned the imperial court in Vienna with his donkey’s bray of a laugh.

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2019

From the mountainsides echoed the harsh donkey bray of gentoo penguins, the screech of skuas, and the bellowing of elephant seals.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

A salty and crisp breeze was blowing when Emily stepped out of the van, carrying with it a faint chorus of brays and barks.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman