How to Use bray in a Sentence

bray

verb

• For once he is allowed to listen and learn rather than to bray through his own turmoil.
  — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 11 Sep. 2017
• Besides, the clamor for alien disclosure is like braying at the moon.
  — NBC News, 5 June 2017
• Other women were pulled onto the laps of braying guests and had men’s hands reaching under their skirts.
  — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2018
• Expect more braying from the brash second-year signal-caller, the NFL poster child for inflated self-worth.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• Leagues and team owners and sponsors will bray against it, because of their insatiable desire to make money, money and more money.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2021
• During the 2016 campaign, no group brayed louder about identity politics than the Baby Boomers.
  — Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
• There’s a scene in Fallen Kingdom that will stay with me for a little while: a lone brontosaurus, standing on a shore nearly engulfed in ash and flame, stretching its long neck up to the sky and braying out a mournful plaint.
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 5 June 2018
• Old-schoolers would bray about Grier letting down his school, yadda, yadda, yadda.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2018
• When Emily picked up dinner recently at a local restaurant, a couple of braying young customers laughed at her mask.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 23 May 2020
• Donald Trump is braying about sanctions against North Korea costing them a billion dollars!
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• Brees and everyone else who’s brayed about Kaepernick disrespecting the anthem or the flag fails to realize that those are symbols for the ideals and rights enshrined in our Constitution.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 3 June 2020
• The stock was down to several-decade lows, analysts were braying for a capital hike and the Justice Department was threatening a massive fine.
  — Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2017
• At that braying burst of illegibility — a sound both comic and upsetting — the other members of Mike Reed’s Flesh & Bone lunged into action.
  — Nate Chinen, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2017
• People deserve liberal license to be themselves, and post-breakup people get an extra allowance to bray about cosmic injustice.
  — Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2017
• Back then nothing signaled success like braying into a first-generation Motorola while sipping some cloudy, rare sake.
  — Patric Kuh, Los Angeles Magazine, 25 Aug. 2017
• Qatari men in traditional white robes waited in SUVs at the border to identify their camels as the beasts trotted across the remote frontier, braying and kicking up dust, under what the owners said was an informal deal with Saudi border guards.
  — Ibrahim Saber, Tom Finn, Alaska Dispatch News, 20 June 2017
• Online, an army of braying hucksters — digital-branding specialists, celebrities in the middle of breakdowns, the president — saw away at my capacity for complex thought.
  — Daniel Kolitz, New York Times, 26 June 2018
• Is there anything worse, anything less conducive to the enjoyment and understanding of the beautiful game, than a round table of former professionals braying platitudes at one another beneath the unforgiving lights of a TV studio?
  — Giles Harvey, New York Times, 3 July 2018
• What will count in the ensuing cacophony isn’t intelligence or expertise, but noise, with superlatives and exclamation points braying loudest and therefore replacing mixed and nuanced assessments.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2017
• For once he is allowed to listen and learn rather than to bray through his own turmoil.
  — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 11 Sep. 2017
• Besides, the clamor for alien disclosure is like braying at the moon.
  — NBC News, 5 June 2017
• Other women were pulled onto the laps of braying guests and had men’s hands reaching under their skirts.
  — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2018
• Expect more braying from the brash second-year signal-caller, the NFL poster child for inflated self-worth.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• Leagues and team owners and sponsors will bray against it, because of their insatiable desire to make money, money and more money.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2021
• During the 2016 campaign, no group brayed louder about identity politics than the Baby Boomers.
  — Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
• There’s a scene in Fallen Kingdom that will stay with me for a little while: a lone brontosaurus, standing on a shore nearly engulfed in ash and flame, stretching its long neck up to the sky and braying out a mournful plaint.
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 5 June 2018
• Old-schoolers would bray about Grier letting down his school, yadda, yadda, yadda.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2018
• When Emily picked up dinner recently at a local restaurant, a couple of braying young customers laughed at her mask.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 23 May 2020
• Donald Trump is braying about sanctions against North Korea costing them a billion dollars!
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• Brees and everyone else who’s brayed about Kaepernick disrespecting the anthem or the flag fails to realize that those are symbols for the ideals and rights enshrined in our Constitution.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 3 June 2020

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024