ululate
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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
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