Synonyms for bray

Grammar : Verb

Spell : brey

Phonetic Transcription : breɪ

Définition of bray

Origin : c.1300, from Old French braire "to cry," from Gallo-Romance *bragire "to cry out," perhaps from a Celtic source (cf. Gaelic braigh "to shriek, crackle"), probably imitative. Related: Brayed; braying.

verb whinny

Example sentences :

"I guess you'll not bray now," he remarked as he cut the rope.
Extract from : « Frank Roscoe's Secret » by Allen Chapman

Whether this caused it or not the boys could not tell, but the donkey did not bray after that.
Extract from : « Frank Roscoe's Secret » by Allen Chapman

He knew that Crews lived in Bray, but he had forgotten the address.
Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine

With a rusty sword and a moke on board to bray like the Horse Marines.
Extract from : « The Battle of the Bays » by Owen Seaman

You may hear their bray in every café, and France is going to the devil.
Extract from : « Dross » by Henry Seton Merriman

Into this they pour chalk and bray it, obtaining the colour of Attic yellow ochre.
Extract from : « Ten Books on Architecture » by Vitruvius

Nor is Bray the only house into which you have introduced disorder.
Extract from : « Short Studies on Great Subjects » by James Anthony Froude

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
Extract from : « Romola » by George Eliot

Toby back with a bray of remonstrance, and Buttercup lowered her horns angrily.
Extract from : « Little Men » by Louisa May Alcott

That I may bray no more in your hearing, I will wish you good-night.
Extract from : « The Bertrams » by Anthony Trollope

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