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Noun
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 There was no braying and shouting that often marks debates in the House of Commons and speeches were considered respectfully and heard in silence.—Brian Melley and Pan Pylas The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for bray
The jarring bleat came across cellphones in Tennessee Monday morning grabbing peoples attention.
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Liz Kellar,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
This pageant of puppetry includes a flutter of butterflies, a goat with a plaintive bleat, a menagerie of wild animals and, at one point, a school of glowing fish.
The rain pounded so hard Friday afternoon that Aventura police closed a portion of Biscayne Boulevard from 191st Street to 29th Avenue, near Aventura Mall, due to road flooding.
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Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
TikTok videos often feature variations where pranksters pound on or kick people’s front doors.
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Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Sep. 2025
The disaster is remembered not just for its winds, but for the crushing surge of water that devastated rural Louisiana parishes and tore through the heart of New Orleans.
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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