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Recent Examples of ululate
Weeping and caressing the lifeless Rahaf in her arms, the baby’s mother, Hejar Abu Jazar, kept ululating in despair.
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Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 11 Dec. 2025
Individual voices — chanting, ululating, cracking, squealing, howling — gradually emerge over speakers, as does a soft, smooth choral harmony underneath.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
No, but their enjoyment of their visit to The Bean stands to be dramatically impaired if the immediately surrounding area becomes a boisterous daily forum for competing religious, political and social activists ululating for attention.
—Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2019
Memes of women praising the crown prince and ululating in celebration danced around the Internet.
—Ben Hubbard, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2019
Women ululated as Francis and the king walked along the promenade of the Hassan Tower complex under umbrellas.
—Amira El Masaiti, The Seattle Times, 31 Mar. 2019
The crowd ululates and the black BMW disappears as supporters cut toward it.
—Laignee Barron / Kedah, Time, 8 May 2018
Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 11 Dec. 2025
Individual voices — chanting, ululating, cracking, squealing, howling — gradually emerge over speakers, as does a soft, smooth choral harmony underneath.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
No, but their enjoyment of their visit to The Bean stands to be dramatically impaired if the immediately surrounding area becomes a boisterous daily forum for competing religious, political and social activists ululating for attention.
—Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2019
Memes of women praising the crown prince and ululating in celebration danced around the Internet.
—Ben Hubbard, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2019
Women ululated as Francis and the king walked along the promenade of the Hassan Tower complex under umbrellas.
—Amira El Masaiti, The Seattle Times, 31 Mar. 2019
The crowd ululates and the black BMW disappears as supporters cut toward it.
—Laignee Barron / Kedah, Time, 8 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ululate
Verb
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Those muscles are better suited to holding the lips in a steady funnel to howl than to flicker through expressions.—
Niranjana Rajalakshmi,
Popular Science,
14 May 2026
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By nightfall, 100-mile-per-hour winds howled through the canyons.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
Verb
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One morning in 2013, before the sun had risen, Hiba and Ibrahim heard gunshots and screams.—
Annie Hylton,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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Also, there was an element of danger, and doing a scene that is really arduous, achieving an emotional peak for an amount of time and performing physical acts and screaming [about] a matter of life and death.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
13 May 2026
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“Ululate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ululate. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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