ululation

How To Use ululation In A Sentence

• Gatz - I didn't think to save my entry before submitting it ... but it was to do with the thrill of discovering new music (and Tinariwen set me off on a monumental world music quest so felt legitimate to say something so seemingly cliched) then being accused of 'ululation' by the wife when caught singing along to it ... Word Magazine - Comments
• It tasted tangy and strangely sweet, like butterscotch, and caused my normally reserved mother to whisper quiet ululations as she picked at it with her spoon.
• He was right: the drums were beat perfect, the ululations from women's groups were in tune and the range of outfits had clearly been painstakingly constructed over some time.
• Beyond Mr Jefferson's high black hat, through those tangled dew-drops of flame, Mr Goosevort saw golden hair glide softly through the oasis of bodies gathered vaguely round the stage, Mr Umberto and Mrs. Jefferson laughed again together, and Mr Howle's mournful ululation could be heard adrift a lake of rabble... golden hair turning away and fluttering into the shadow of a winding stairway. Mr Goosevort
• The latter are easy to understand, the former especially sopranos tend to incomprehensible ululation, even when singing in English. Notes and queries: What's the difference between operas and musicals? Is getting there quicker cheaper? The house where Handel and Hendrix lived
• The woods reecho with their wild screams and the weird ululations of the battle cry. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
• These factors set them very far apart from their Latin-derived associates, which are uniformly multisyllabic and which have differing noun and verb forms, for example: latrate (like a dog) and latration; stridulate (like a cricket or grasshopper) and stridulation; and ululate (like a dog, jackal, wolf, or owl) and ululation. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
• After less than a minute of nonstop barking, I heard the first canine rejoinders, the ululations of outraged yip dogs.
• In the days to follow, Charles would argue that this high-pitched ululation was the real reason for the crash.
• They were now pressed together by the tens of thousands, and they exploded in a frenzy of cheering and ululation when he came onstage. Jacob’s Ladder