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noun breɪbreɪ 1The loud, harsh cry of a donkey or mule. 驴叫声；骡叫声 the mule uttered its insane bray Example sentencesExamples - As we pulled away, Harvest House's lone mule let out a raucous bray and a light wind blew a stream of dried leaves in our path.
- These characterful creatures, with their rasping Ee-aw bray, are known to make excellent stable companions for horses, foals, or other donkeys.
- Ghoma barked out a laugh that sounded very much like a goat's bray.
- Gayson let out a cry that sounded like a mix of donkey bray and parrot squawk.
- Klessa's voice sounded like a donkey's bray next to the voice of the elf, and that as well as the words she said snapped Rilleta out of her dreamy mood.
- I dismounted the donkey and it let out another loud bray.
- But the fox, hearing the donkey's voice, said, ‘If you want to terrify me, you'll have to disguise your bray.’
- They take notice of nothing in the world, only they seem to see and smell victuals, at the approach of which they will gape, and be very restless, and make something of a bray.
- A horrible scream could be heard, a mix of a horse's angry bray, and a cat's yowl.
- No worse by day than the lusty priming of a neglected hand pump, at night the donkey's bray assumes the apocalyptic aural agony of hell's rusted gates being effortfully forced ajar.
- Is there a human voice, a voice that is the voice of man as the chirp is the voice of the cricket or the bray is the voice of the donkey?
- The donkey emitted a laugh-like bray.
- Their typical call is a commingled bray and bleat, followed by a snorted inhale sounding like an oak dining table being dragged across a hardwood floor.
- Rippling amongst the voices were the sounds of horses and dogs and the occasional bray of a donkey, the clank and scrape of metal, the clang of forges working hard to repair damages and the low, mellow crackle of fires.
- 1.1 A sound, voice, or laugh resembling a bray.
驴叫般的声音 he recognized the loud bray of the doctor Example sentencesExamples - I walked away, and as I stopped to rest the book on a shelf and sign it, I heard the manager and stockboy laugh, a brief explosive bray that just might have been at my expense.
- Actually, he didn't, but my teeth were grinding so loudly I couldn't hear his nasal bray.
- He let out a high-pitched bray, his signal that he felt threatened by this confrontation.
- Tony slapped him on the back and let out a bray of laughter.
- Dori's airhorn had a decidedly different tone than Devon's, and the resulting sound was a bray that was both loud and atonal.
- She sat on the bed and watched Cassandra dance around the room, making some strange sound that was between a squawk and a bray of some sort.
- You had this bray you would let out sometimes - not a laugh or a shout, but more a hack of comedic anger.
- It wants to stand as a sweeping spectacle of one of the darkest chapters in our young nation's history, but it only wants to accomplish it with words, not deeds, bombastic brays from bearded windy windbags, not gripping historical drama.
- He will squint at the Tories sardined into the benches opposite, put his thumb to his nose, wiggle his fingers and, with a schoolboy bray, say: ‘Na-na-na-na-naaa’.
- The cool air as it rises and the welcoming bray of the tugboats passing reassure us that life on the river is as continuous as the days and nights that pull it along from mountain stream to flat delta shelves.
- The latter, a boisterous Jersey boy, has a motor mouth and often punctuates his sentences with an infectious bray of loud laughter.
- He had a bray of a laugh which he exercised at the most inappropriate times.
- Max processed this for a moment, then let out a sharp, explosive bray of laughter.
verb breɪbreɪ [no object]1(of a donkey or mule) utter a bray. the donkey brayed and kicked Example sentencesExamples - We got our food and went on our way, ignoring our antagonist, who continued to bray behind us.
- Bobby brayed, louder this time, his voice slightly breaking from alcohol so that he sounded like a teenage boy overloaded with hormones.
- Somewhere out there in the dazzlement, the mule brayed a few times, then went silent.
- In fact, people are already braying for a saviour.
- The bazaar brims with the smells and sounds of bustling peasants, braying livestock, simmering foods, traveling musicians and merchants boldly declaring their wares.
- Expensively tanned retirees brayed across the foyer of Perth's ice-rink to people they hadn't seen since before last year's Med cruise.
- I'm driving home in the miserable sleet, and the tune comes braying from my radio.
- These leaders of industry and commerce continue to issue statements of concern, pout, slap their chests, and bray loudly about their concerns of the administration's inability to arrest the growing crime situation.
- And then we heard them all night, braying like donkeys right under the house.
- I didn't get two seconds within three blocks of Gallagher Park this year, rushing to meet an easy assignment, before some dinosaur started braying at me about not stopping at a checkpoint.
- Fired by much wine and a weariness with the visitor's braying, these words (or something very much like them) tumbled unbidden from the Professor's lips.
- With one tight slap, Brenda made short work of my smirk, causing the foxes to snicker and bray among themselves.
- One time someone arrived in the building and was brought in for an important meeting with Scott, who at that exact moment was braying at the top of his lungs like a mule.
- Donkeys brayed, and the pungent aroma from a nearby slaughterhouse wafted over the neighborhood.
- It brayed loudly again, and scampered, frightened, into the woods.
- Public voices used to bray on about heroism and sacrifice.
- She's braying at some clever comment he's made, and he's smiling through clenched teeth.
- As master and squire continue on, both the horse and donkey whinny and bray - which they both take as good omens.
- At that moment, the donkey brayed loudly inside the stable.
- As might be expected, some people abused this system and reported the nosy neighbor (with the loud goat who brayed at 3 AM) as a heretic, just to try and get rid of them.
- It has four legs, it has a tail, and it is braying, its hoofs are sounding like donkey hooves but it cannot be a donkey for it is dragging a chain.
- Donkeys brayed to one another across threshing floors of harvested wheat.
- He also looked on his donkey that brayed at his approach.
- The horse brayed softly and moved over to Katie, who was holding out a blade of grass for it to eat.
- It's as if someone's taken all the worst parts of every London venue, added in the usual freeloaders braying in your ear while the band are playing, and stuck them in an all-new, shiny place just to ruin any gig you fancy going to.
- They come upon the villagers from the town being taunted by donkey braying and find them readying themselves for battle.
- Let the philistines bray: the Society of Student Artists knows how important it is to come to grips with the world of commerce.
- The mules brayed in fear as the cart driver hauled back on the reigns, bringing the wagon to a shuddering halt.
- And when he finally appeared, he blustered and brayed, losing none of the stonewalling qualities that had marked his time in politics.
- Yet what galls me is how the critics constantly bray on about how deep the movie is.
- His mule brayed, as if the silence were oppressive.
- His smiles almost never touch his lips, except when he is braying with laughter or doing something much more intimate.
- Astley recorded the pastoral sounds of an Oxfordshire Sunday in summer - birds singing, bells ringing, donkeys braying, gates creaking - to accompany her piano-and-flute soundtrack of a day's journey into night.
- Andrew brayed with laughter and whacked Tony on the shoulder with enough force to knock a horse flat on its side.
- Angels wouldn't be braying like donkeys because I died.
- A tiny spark jumped from the mage's finger to the flank of the donkey pulling it, and it brayed a complaint as it headed for the gate at an awkward trot.
- The rooster would have crowed, the donkey would have brayed.
- The steed carrying it brayed, its coarse voice bellowing out like a foghorn.
- At the edge of her mind, she heard a mule braying loudly, in fear.
- Frenzied from all the drama, the savages in the audience brayed in a united, primitive chant.
- The tractor roared, the donkey brayed and the water thundered by - it was a diabolical din.
- I say to the member who, as usual, brays in the middle of the answer to his own question, that getting to the bottom of the issue created by himself is not something that anybody else cares about in this House.
- The creature brayed, kicked out his heels, and set to grazing with ferocious concentration.
- The horse was braying, frightened, as it tried to back away from several men fighting.
- One of the articles deals with social life of some species such as pigeons and spiders, while another talks of why donkeys bray.
- They head out in the boat and Sancho starts crying after he hears his donkey braying plaintively.
Synonyms neigh, whinny, hee-haw rare hinny - 1.1 (of a person) speak or laugh loudly and harshly.
他发出驴叫似的狂笑声。 with direct speech ‘Leave!’ brayed a voice behind her Example sentencesExamples - Mackenzie balled the note up, crushing it in her fist, as her face flamed and Amanda laughed, throwing her head back and braying her glee.
- Frenzied from all the drama, the savages in the audience brayed in a united, primitive chant.
- Fired by much wine and a weariness with the visitor's braying, these words (or something very much like them) tumbled unbidden from the Professor's lips.
- His smiles almost never touch his lips, except when he is braying with laughter or doing something much more intimate.
- These leaders of industry and commerce continue to issue statements of concern, pout, slap their chests, and bray loudly about their concerns of the administration's inability to arrest the growing crime situation.
- All the major chin-pullers will be thrashing the obvious, and I try not to be just another voice braying the company line.
- Routinely, she would bray out mindless questions in the middle of class in a grating manner.
- We got our food and went on our way, ignoring our antagonist, who continued to bray behind us.
- Yet what galls me is how the critics constantly bray on about how deep the movie is.
- Yet the ruling has ignited a nationwide furor, with congressmen and television ‘personalities’ tripping over each other to be the loudest in braying out their protest against the court's action.
- Let the philistines bray: the Society of Student Artists knows how important it is to come to grips with the world of commerce.
- As I trolled back and forth in the microfiche looking for the relevant piece, I was struck by the other things the chattering classes brayed five years ago.
- And when he finally appeared, he blustered and brayed, losing none of the stonewalling qualities that had marked his time in politics.
- It's as if someone's taken all the worst parts of every London venue, added in the usual freeloaders braying in your ear while the band are playing, and stuck them in an all-new, shiny place just to ruin any gig you fancy going to.
- Unfortunately, she was braying this information with a particularly foghorn-like voice so I was wide awake.
- She's braying at some clever comment he's made, and he's smiling through clenched teeth.
- One time someone arrived in the building and was brought in for an important meeting with Scott, who at that exact moment was braying at the top of his lungs like a mule.
- US spokespersons brayed that African leaders were letting their people starve.
- I say to the member who, as usual, brays in the middle of the answer to his own question, that getting to the bottom of the issue created by himself is not something that anybody else cares about in this House.
- With one tight slap, Brenda made short work of my smirk, causing the foxes to snicker and bray among themselves.
- Expensively tanned retirees brayed across the foyer of Perth's ice-rink to people they hadn't seen since before last year's Med cruise.
- I didn't get two seconds within three blocks of Gallagher Park this year, rushing to meet an easy assignment, before some dinosaur started braying at me about not stopping at a checkpoint.
- Our only company were the punters juddering past, recounting anonymous pulls or braying their thoughts on ‘Is No Ism The New Ism?’
- I'm driving home in the miserable sleet, and the tune comes braying from my radio.
- Andrew brayed with laughter and whacked Tony on the shoulder with enough force to knock a horse flat on its side.
- Today's newspapers are braying the inevitable bad news.
- In fact, people are already braying for a saviour.
- And then if it does, I thought, I'm going to bray it.
- Bobby brayed, louder this time, his voice slightly breaking from alcohol so that he sounded like a teenage boy overloaded with hormones.
- Their voices are powerful and exaggerated, bellowing and braying their often nonsensical lines.
- Instead of one strong voice braying the truth about the business of baseball, let there be dozens.
- ‘Yeah I'm talking to you,’ he said, his voice and his face braying the annoyance he felt towards the girl.
- Public voices used to bray on about heroism and sacrifice.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French brait 'a shriek', braire 'to cry' (the original senses in English), perhaps ultimately of Celtic origin. Rhymesaffray, agley, aka, allay, Angers, A-OK, appellation contrôlée, array, assay, astray, au fait, auto-da-fé, away, aweigh, aye, bay, belay, betray, bey, Bombay, Bordet, boulevardier, bouquet, brae, café au lait, Carné, cassoulet, Cathay, chassé, chevet, chez, chiné, clay, convey, Cray, crème brûlée, crudités, cuvée, cy-pres, day, decay, deejay, dégagé, distinguée, downplay, dray, Dufay, Dushanbe, eh, embay, engagé, essay, everyday, faraway, fay, fey, flay, fray, Frey, fromage frais, gainsay, Gaye, Genet, giclee, gilet, glissé, gray, grey, halfway, hay, heigh, hey, hooray, Hubei, Hué, hurray, inveigh, jay, jeunesse dorée, José, Kay, Kaye, Klee, Kray, Lae, lay, lei, Littré, Lough Neagh, lwei, Mae, maguey, Malay, Mallarmé, Mandalay, Marseilles, may, midday, midway, mislay, misplay, Monterrey, Na-Dene, nay, né, née, neigh, Ney, noway, obey, O'Dea, okay, olé, outlay, outplay, outstay, outweigh, oyez, part-way, pay, Pei, per se, pince-nez, play, portray, pray, prey, purvey, qua, Quai d'Orsay, Rae, rangé, ray, re, reflet, relevé, roman-à-clef, Santa Fé, say, sei, Shar Pei, shay, slay, sleigh, sley, spae, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, straightaway, straightway, strathspey, stray, Sui, survey, sway, Taipei, Tay, they, today, tokay, Torbay, Tournai, trait, tray, trey, two-way, ukiyo-e, underlay, way, waylay, Wei, weigh, wey, Whangarei, whey, yea verb breɪbreɪ [with object]archaic Pound or crush (something) to small pieces, typically with a pestle and mortar. 〈古〉（尤指用杵和臼）捣碎，碾碎 the kernels of this fruit the Arabs bray in a mortar Example sentencesExamples - The dust is then sifted, the residue is brayed again; refractory stalks are burned to ashes, and this is mixed with the snuff.
- He was like that: he'd just bray somebody for no reason.
- He said: ‘The next thing I saw was two lads being brayed.’
- He was to be brayed in a mortar among wheat with a pestle - pretty hard dealing that, and yet his folly would not depart from him.
- J. J. shared Montaignes antipathy to physic and physicians, and the idea of his beloved plants being brayed in a mortar with a pestle and transformed into pills, plasters, and ointment revolted his romantic soul.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French breier, of Germanic origin; related to break1. nounbrābreɪ 1usually in singular The loud, harsh cry of a donkey or mule. 驴叫声；骡叫声 Example sentencesExamples - But the fox, hearing the donkey's voice, said, ‘If you want to terrify me, you'll have to disguise your bray.’
- The donkey emitted a laugh-like bray.
- They take notice of nothing in the world, only they seem to see and smell victuals, at the approach of which they will gape, and be very restless, and make something of a bray.
- I dismounted the donkey and it let out another loud bray.
- Rippling amongst the voices were the sounds of horses and dogs and the occasional bray of a donkey, the clank and scrape of metal, the clang of forges working hard to repair damages and the low, mellow crackle of fires.
- As we pulled away, Harvest House's lone mule let out a raucous bray and a light wind blew a stream of dried leaves in our path.
- These characterful creatures, with their rasping Ee-aw bray, are known to make excellent stable companions for horses, foals, or other donkeys.
- A horrible scream could be heard, a mix of a horse's angry bray, and a cat's yowl.
- Their typical call is a commingled bray and bleat, followed by a snorted inhale sounding like an oak dining table being dragged across a hardwood floor.
- No worse by day than the lusty priming of a neglected hand pump, at night the donkey's bray assumes the apocalyptic aural agony of hell's rusted gates being effortfully forced ajar.
- Klessa's voice sounded like a donkey's bray next to the voice of the elf, and that as well as the words she said snapped Rilleta out of her dreamy mood.
- Ghoma barked out a laugh that sounded very much like a goat's bray.
- Is there a human voice, a voice that is the voice of man as the chirp is the voice of the cricket or the bray is the voice of the donkey?
- Gayson let out a cry that sounded like a mix of donkey bray and parrot squawk.
- 1.1 A sound, voice, or laugh resembling the cry of a donkey or mule.
驴叫声；骡叫声 Example sentencesExamples - The latter, a boisterous Jersey boy, has a motor mouth and often punctuates his sentences with an infectious bray of loud laughter.
- He will squint at the Tories sardined into the benches opposite, put his thumb to his nose, wiggle his fingers and, with a schoolboy bray, say: ‘Na-na-na-na-naaa’.
- Tony slapped him on the back and let out a bray of laughter.
- You had this bray you would let out sometimes - not a laugh or a shout, but more a hack of comedic anger.
- She sat on the bed and watched Cassandra dance around the room, making some strange sound that was between a squawk and a bray of some sort.
- He let out a high-pitched bray, his signal that he felt threatened by this confrontation.
- The cool air as it rises and the welcoming bray of the tugboats passing reassure us that life on the river is as continuous as the days and nights that pull it along from mountain stream to flat delta shelves.
- I walked away, and as I stopped to rest the book on a shelf and sign it, I heard the manager and stockboy laugh, a brief explosive bray that just might have been at my expense.
- It wants to stand as a sweeping spectacle of one of the darkest chapters in our young nation's history, but it only wants to accomplish it with words, not deeds, bombastic brays from bearded windy windbags, not gripping historical drama.
- Actually, he didn't, but my teeth were grinding so loudly I couldn't hear his nasal bray.
- He had a bray of a laugh which he exercised at the most inappropriate times.
- Dori's airhorn had a decidedly different tone than Devon's, and the resulting sound was a bray that was both loud and atonal.
- Max processed this for a moment, then let out a sharp, explosive bray of laughter.
verbbrābreɪ [no object]1(of a donkey or mule) utter a bray. Example sentencesExamples - Frenzied from all the drama, the savages in the audience brayed in a united, primitive chant.
- His smiles almost never touch his lips, except when he is braying with laughter or doing something much more intimate.
- A tiny spark jumped from the mage's finger to the flank of the donkey pulling it, and it brayed a complaint as it headed for the gate at an awkward trot.
- The horse brayed softly and moved over to Katie, who was holding out a blade of grass for it to eat.
- As might be expected, some people abused this system and reported the nosy neighbor (with the loud goat who brayed at 3 AM) as a heretic, just to try and get rid of them.
- Andrew brayed with laughter and whacked Tony on the shoulder with enough force to knock a horse flat on its side.
- Somewhere out there in the dazzlement, the mule brayed a few times, then went silent.
- Astley recorded the pastoral sounds of an Oxfordshire Sunday in summer - birds singing, bells ringing, donkeys braying, gates creaking - to accompany her piano-and-flute soundtrack of a day's journey into night.
- Bobby brayed, louder this time, his voice slightly breaking from alcohol so that he sounded like a teenage boy overloaded with hormones.
- And when he finally appeared, he blustered and brayed, losing none of the stonewalling qualities that had marked his time in politics.
- With one tight slap, Brenda made short work of my smirk, causing the foxes to snicker and bray among themselves.
- The tractor roared, the donkey brayed and the water thundered by - it was a diabolical din.
- And then we heard them all night, braying like donkeys right under the house.
- She's braying at some clever comment he's made, and he's smiling through clenched teeth.
- Yet what galls me is how the critics constantly bray on about how deep the movie is.
- The rooster would have crowed, the donkey would have brayed.
- It's as if someone's taken all the worst parts of every London venue, added in the usual freeloaders braying in your ear while the band are playing, and stuck them in an all-new, shiny place just to ruin any gig you fancy going to.
- Fired by much wine and a weariness with the visitor's braying, these words (or something very much like them) tumbled unbidden from the Professor's lips.
- The horse was braying, frightened, as it tried to back away from several men fighting.
- His mule brayed, as if the silence were oppressive.
- They come upon the villagers from the town being taunted by donkey braying and find them readying themselves for battle.
- The creature brayed, kicked out his heels, and set to grazing with ferocious concentration.
- It brayed loudly again, and scampered, frightened, into the woods.
- Angels wouldn't be braying like donkeys because I died.
- At that moment, the donkey brayed loudly inside the stable.
- We got our food and went on our way, ignoring our antagonist, who continued to bray behind us.
- The mules brayed in fear as the cart driver hauled back on the reigns, bringing the wagon to a shuddering halt.
- Let the philistines bray: the Society of Student Artists knows how important it is to come to grips with the world of commerce.
- The steed carrying it brayed, its coarse voice bellowing out like a foghorn.
- I didn't get two seconds within three blocks of Gallagher Park this year, rushing to meet an easy assignment, before some dinosaur started braying at me about not stopping at a checkpoint.
- Public voices used to bray on about heroism and sacrifice.
- At the edge of her mind, she heard a mule braying loudly, in fear.
- It has four legs, it has a tail, and it is braying, its hoofs are sounding like donkey hooves but it cannot be a donkey for it is dragging a chain.
- The bazaar brims with the smells and sounds of bustling peasants, braying livestock, simmering foods, traveling musicians and merchants boldly declaring their wares.
- He also looked on his donkey that brayed at his approach.
- They head out in the boat and Sancho starts crying after he hears his donkey braying plaintively.
- These leaders of industry and commerce continue to issue statements of concern, pout, slap their chests, and bray loudly about their concerns of the administration's inability to arrest the growing crime situation.
- I say to the member who, as usual, brays in the middle of the answer to his own question, that getting to the bottom of the issue created by himself is not something that anybody else cares about in this House.
- In fact, people are already braying for a saviour.
- As master and squire continue on, both the horse and donkey whinny and bray - which they both take as good omens.
- I'm driving home in the miserable sleet, and the tune comes braying from my radio.
- Donkeys brayed to one another across threshing floors of harvested wheat.
- Expensively tanned retirees brayed across the foyer of Perth's ice-rink to people they hadn't seen since before last year's Med cruise.
- One of the articles deals with social life of some species such as pigeons and spiders, while another talks of why donkeys bray.
- Donkeys brayed, and the pungent aroma from a nearby slaughterhouse wafted over the neighborhood.
- One time someone arrived in the building and was brought in for an important meeting with Scott, who at that exact moment was braying at the top of his lungs like a mule.
- 1.1 (of a person) speak or laugh loudly and harshly.
他发出驴叫似的狂笑声。 with direct speech ‘Leave!,’ brayed a voice behind her Example sentencesExamples - And then if it does, I thought, I'm going to bray it.
- Today's newspapers are braying the inevitable bad news.
- All the major chin-pullers will be thrashing the obvious, and I try not to be just another voice braying the company line.
- Expensively tanned retirees brayed across the foyer of Perth's ice-rink to people they hadn't seen since before last year's Med cruise.
- Instead of one strong voice braying the truth about the business of baseball, let there be dozens.
- Public voices used to bray on about heroism and sacrifice.
- Their voices are powerful and exaggerated, bellowing and braying their often nonsensical lines.
- Unfortunately, she was braying this information with a particularly foghorn-like voice so I was wide awake.
- I'm driving home in the miserable sleet, and the tune comes braying from my radio.
- In fact, people are already braying for a saviour.
- Frenzied from all the drama, the savages in the audience brayed in a united, primitive chant.
- One time someone arrived in the building and was brought in for an important meeting with Scott, who at that exact moment was braying at the top of his lungs like a mule.
- She's braying at some clever comment he's made, and he's smiling through clenched teeth.
- Yet what galls me is how the critics constantly bray on about how deep the movie is.
- ‘Yeah I'm talking to you,’ he said, his voice and his face braying the annoyance he felt towards the girl.
- Routinely, she would bray out mindless questions in the middle of class in a grating manner.
- His smiles almost never touch his lips, except when he is braying with laughter or doing something much more intimate.
- As I trolled back and forth in the microfiche looking for the relevant piece, I was struck by the other things the chattering classes brayed five years ago.
- Mackenzie balled the note up, crushing it in her fist, as her face flamed and Amanda laughed, throwing her head back and braying her glee.
- Fired by much wine and a weariness with the visitor's braying, these words (or something very much like them) tumbled unbidden from the Professor's lips.
- It's as if someone's taken all the worst parts of every London venue, added in the usual freeloaders braying in your ear while the band are playing, and stuck them in an all-new, shiny place just to ruin any gig you fancy going to.
- And when he finally appeared, he blustered and brayed, losing none of the stonewalling qualities that had marked his time in politics.
- Bobby brayed, louder this time, his voice slightly breaking from alcohol so that he sounded like a teenage boy overloaded with hormones.
- With one tight slap, Brenda made short work of my smirk, causing the foxes to snicker and bray among themselves.
- We got our food and went on our way, ignoring our antagonist, who continued to bray behind us.
- Our only company were the punters juddering past, recounting anonymous pulls or braying their thoughts on ‘Is No Ism The New Ism?’
- Andrew brayed with laughter and whacked Tony on the shoulder with enough force to knock a horse flat on its side.
- US spokespersons brayed that African leaders were letting their people starve.
- These leaders of industry and commerce continue to issue statements of concern, pout, slap their chests, and bray loudly about their concerns of the administration's inability to arrest the growing crime situation.
- I say to the member who, as usual, brays in the middle of the answer to his own question, that getting to the bottom of the issue created by himself is not something that anybody else cares about in this House.
- I didn't get two seconds within three blocks of Gallagher Park this year, rushing to meet an easy assignment, before some dinosaur started braying at me about not stopping at a checkpoint.
- Yet the ruling has ignited a nationwide furor, with congressmen and television ‘personalities’ tripping over each other to be the loudest in braying out their protest against the court's action.
- Let the philistines bray: the Society of Student Artists knows how important it is to come to grips with the world of commerce.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French brait ‘a shriek’, braire ‘to cry’ (the original senses in English), perhaps ultimately of Celtic origin. verbbrābreɪ [with object]archaic Pound or crush (something) to small pieces, typically with a pestle and mortar. 〈古〉（尤指用杵和臼）捣碎，碾碎 the kernels of this fruit the Arabs bray in a mortar Example sentencesExamples - He was like that: he'd just bray somebody for no reason.
- He was to be brayed in a mortar among wheat with a pestle - pretty hard dealing that, and yet his folly would not depart from him.
- J. J. shared Montaignes antipathy to physic and physicians, and the idea of his beloved plants being brayed in a mortar with a pestle and transformed into pills, plasters, and ointment revolted his romantic soul.
- He said: ‘The next thing I saw was two lads being brayed.’
- The dust is then sifted, the residue is brayed again; refractory stalks are burned to ashes, and this is mixed with the snuff.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French breier, of Germanic origin; related to break. |