brays 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of bray

brays

2 of 2

noun

plural of bray

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of brays
Verb
The villas are new but already feel ancient (in the best possible way), pitched in a jumble of sugarcane fields, date palms, and donkey brays bellowing from the adjoining farm. Chris Schalkx, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brays
Verb
  • The Food Processor quickly chops, slices, and shreds a wide array of ingredients for unlimited culinary creations, while the Coffee & Spice Grinder efficiently grinds coffee beans, spices, and herbs for superior flavor and potency.
    ABC News, ABC News, 22 June 2026
  • With a range of 50 to 300 kilometers, the drones, all made in Ukraine, are designed to throttle the Russian army’s logistics – adding a new dimension of strikes to Ukraine’s strategy as the war grinds through its fifth year.
    Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN Money, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • Late that afternoon, Flint was sitting quietly against his tree and using a Primos can call to make bleats.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Busting out a box of instruments that turned the room into a riot of noise, Sheeran then encourage each student to share their unique sound into the mic, from saxophone bleats to fart sounds.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Teams go bonkers when the player pounds their school name on the bracket.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2026
  • Rain pounds down in a stinging curtain.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • Incense usually comes in either cone or stick form and is composed of fragrant material — usually resins, seeds, barks and flowers — that’s bound together using a combustible material.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 17 June 2026
  • Caspar David Friedrich has sketchbooks of particular branches, twigs, barks of different trees.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
Verb
  • This mandate creates an environment that crushes most of the students it is intended to develop.
    Scott White, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • For someone already carrying that kind of low-grade worry, a surprise $4,000 surgery bill is the type of shock that crushes a stable-looking budget.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • One minute later, cackles rippled through my eardrums at a higher decibel than before.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
  • As evening falls, the clink of pints and bursts of cackles spill from Pat Collins Pub—where locals swap stories to the rhythm of fiddle tunes beneath an Irish twilight.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • England or Ghana are the likeliest candidates unless group mate Panama, who’s already eliminated, beats England on Saturday — in which case rip up your predictions and embrace the chaos.
    AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 27 June 2026
  • On the verify level, one action beats everything else combined.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
Noun
  • Johnson’s first budget made the CARE pilot permanent and doubled staff positions in 2024, to roars of approval from his progressive base.
    Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • The cheers and the roars reverberated around NRG Stadium.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 24 June 2026

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“Brays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brays. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.

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