How To Use Ululation In A Sentence
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Finally when the decorated bajra of the Lahiri family sails into view and the women begin their ululations, they notice that there is no responsive cheer from the bajra, when it is anchored no one rushes to the railings.
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Then, as the acous - tics of the vast space allowed the ululations to rise through the eight heavily glyphed columns girdling Mudra's dance floor, sound was magically transmuted into music-an ear - piercing, pulse-pounding, adrenaline-rush type of thing, but still rife with melody, harmonies-plus, you could dance to it.
Second Skin
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Will no longer unable to pronounce the sound, and this time the window is ululation one, it is to watch the instructor calling the laborers were issued.
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Simply the gentle tones of a flute, the plash of running water and the breathy ululations of the artist's own voice.
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Individual players are encouraged to display their skills by the whistling and ululation of the spectators.
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Why does Danny Elfman's music score erupt with Arabic-sounding ululations if not to make us think of the Middle East?
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Saturday morning I awake predawn to the harsh amplified ululation of the first prayer call.
Richard Bangs: Bahrain: Once Was Paradise
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What we hear is Fouere using all her vocal skill to break up Beckett's unpunctuated phrases and intersperse them with cries and ululations.
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The bloodcurdling ululation as the master of Loxley Hall tumbled from the roof of his stately pile was the dying falsetto of the rural gentry being ousted by bossyboots New Labour values.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Then the evil spirit must be driven out, and the medicine-man stretches his patient on the ground and scarifies him with the claws of eagles from head to heel, and while performing the scarification a group of men and women stand about, forming a chorus, and medicine-man and chorus perform a fugue in gloomy ululation, for these wicked spirits will depart only by incantations and scarifications.
Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56
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Suddenly she threw back her head, pointed her sharp muzzle to the sky, and gave voice to the long-drawn ululation which is the battle-cry of wolves.
The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
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Then the rising ululation of what he knew was a siren but still sounded to him like that ill-omened bird of night rose to a climax.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Danny strategically played the Kaya song from his Kaya album and prolonged it till dawn as a way of bidding farewell to 2005 as he welcomed 2006 amid ululations and whistling among his fans in the packed hall.
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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
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe - reviled by the west - was greeted by screams, clapping and ululation in Dar es Salaam on Monday at the opening of a summit of southern African countries.
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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
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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
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In the days to follow, Charles would argue that this high-pitched ululation was the real reason for the crash.
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After less than a minute of nonstop barking, I heard the first canine rejoinders, the ululations of outraged yip dogs.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.