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

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

His famous stage bray was muted, replaced by the oddly calming cadence later familiar to listeners of “Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast,” his whipsmart showbiz series with Frank Santopadre.

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2022

He’ll bray, he’ll bate, he’ll prate, he’ll Berate, and he’ll inveigh, Then once we’ve been diverted, he’ll cause a new melee.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018

He let out a long bray and started wringing his tail.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

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

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

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

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