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

Then she placed her forehead on mine and began to ululate, but softly.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda

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

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

The Jewish men hoisted the bride high on a chair; the Eritreans ululated in the temple.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2018

Yemeni refugees cheered and ululated as their plane dipped towards Aden, returning them to a precarious life in their home city three weeks after fighting there ended and months after most of them fled.

From Reuters ● Aug. 11, 2015

The moment each woman guest arrived in the yard, and before she reached the door, she ululated, making a loud trilling sound, to announce that she shared our joy.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

Others surged towards the casket, dancing, clapping, ululating; all through tears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026

"We have to do better, we must do better," vowed Mr Fletcher, who cast aside his prepared speech when he stood under a canopy facing rows of Sudanese women and children, clapping and ululating.

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2024

In Qatar, hundreds of elated fans clad in green and red outside Al Thumama Stadium celebrated Morocco’s win, chanting, ululating, banging on drums and waving the national flag.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2022

At the midway point, Fohr’s operatic voice explodes in all its dark, ululating grandeur.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2021

There he would sit, and the search would pass him by, and the cordon waver on, ululating along the island, and he would be free.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding