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Recent Examples of bray
Noun
As if to punctuate his asinine decision, Marin makes a braying donkey noise.—Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025 Walk along the streets, where the only sounds come from passing bicycles, golf carts, and the occasional braying donkey.—Laura Begley Bloom, AFAR Media, 10 Mar. 2025 Democrats are braying at rallies in the street for Musk to get arrested.—Rich Lowry, National Review, 7 Feb. 2025 The donkey's father can be heard braying in the background.—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for bray
The intermittent pops of muzzle fire are drowned out as tank treads grind the asphalt down Washington Street toward the East River waterfront, where a 100-year-old carousel lays in ruin.
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Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
9 Oct. 2025
Those guys will grind that quickness, so their game will look different than the other lines.
Not all Republicans agreed, but their bleats of complaint hardly suggested a Congress that had finally found the moment to reassert its institutional prerogatives.
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Susan B. Glasser,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
The jarring bleat came across cellphones in Tennessee Monday morning grabbing peoples attention.
John Candy famously took a racquetball to the skull in a key comedic scene from the 1984 film Splash — and fellow actor Tom Hanks recalls that his late costar's head might've been pounding already after Candy spent the night before drinking with Hollywood icon Jack Nicholson.
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Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Oct. 2025
The ball would pound the hardwood like a hammer pounds a nail.
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James L. Edwards III,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
How moo moo came to be be The Facebook group and the resulting moo moo movement began with a conversation between Huckins and a friend, according to both women.
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