ululate

When women’s voices ululate, they do so, in different regions of the world, to celebrate, to mourn, to pray, to warn, to seduce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2020

The horseman howl and ululate in triumph while the Unsullied bang their spears on the ground in unison.

From Salon ● May 20, 2019

At that point, as though suddenly realizing that there were dramatic circumstances at hand, the local jamming installations swung into action, commencing to howl and ululate with a doubled fury.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 17, 2014

The man who married Trotsky's secretary made his most interesting and rebellious characters girls: the piratical sisters, the Amazons, who "rattle our sabres to frighten the neighbours", ululate ferociously beneath their bonnets rouges.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2010

The efrits ululate, doubling their efforts to pull her away.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

It’s possible to forget that, sunk into some plush seat while a chorus line ululates, but threat remains.

From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2020

She starts screaming in Farsi, then ululates at ear-piercing timbre.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2015

"Why?" ululates Edwards, shaking his head like an aggrieved outreach worker, but, when confronted, nobody seems to know.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013

The singer, here the vibrantly theatrical countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, sometimes echoes, sometimes ululates and sometimes disintegrates into a pained, nearly silent scream.

From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2012

With a maximum of temptation she ululates the ditties of the Gershwin brothers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The crowd sang, drummed and ululated as Francis entered the dusty area.

From Reuters ● Feb. 5, 2023

Who knew that Martians, inside monstrous tripodal machines taller than many buildings, actually ululated, that they made eerily haunting "ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla" sounds?

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2021

Women ululated, fathers and uncles rushed to lift the returnees into the air amid shouts of joy.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2018

Over an alien procession of sonorous percussion, tart winds and tremulous strings that blur into quarter-tones, the soprano Susan Narucki trilled, ululated and sang in French and an invented tongue.

From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2010

She put back her head and ululated, and everyone in camp turned to look.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Crowds gathered at the hospital, cheering and ululating to celebrate.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2023

The metro near Al Thumama Stadium became a pulsing dance party of Moroccans drumming on the windows and ululating in celebration.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2022

To watch the Agojie warriors storm into battle, armed with swords and spears and led by Nanisca’s mighty ululating battle cry, is to encounter much more than the standard Hollywood vision of resistance in action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

On “Mueve La Cadera,” he sculpted it into percussive babbling; on “Tarzan,” it was ululating yells; on “Suave,” high-pitched baby talk.

From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2021

His brother sat back on his haunches and lifted his voice in a ululating howl, his song black with mourning.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin