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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ululate.

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Examples

  • Noting that the Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei has blamed Britain in particular for fomenting the Iranian protests, Boris ululates:

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • I know some hipper-than-thou sort is going to make fun of me for being nearly a month late noting blowupdoll's bizarro collection of Beatle-related songs - including a girl Beatle band, Yoko ululating about the joys of being Mrs. Lennon I'm assuming she ululates....

    Archive 2009-04-01 Donna Lethal 2009

  • Noting that the Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei has blamed Britain in particular for fomenting the Iranian protests, Boris ululates:

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Noting that the Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei has blamed Britain in particular for fomenting the Iranian protests, Boris ululates:

    Obama Derangement Syndrome strikes London's Mayor 2009

  • Rather than endeavoring to redefine itself as a party of well-reasoned, informed conservative viewpoints, GOP politicians are simply crawling back to the usual bunch of idiots -- a group that ululates resonantly while carrying an ever-more puny stick.

    Stuart Whatley: Teabagging: Redux Anti-Intellectualism 2009

  • A riot of golds and greens and ruby-reds swirls and ululates across the page, what is it?

    Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996

  • A riot of golds and greens and ruby-reds swirls and ululates across the page, what is it?

    Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996

  • _Cabri-des-bois_, [14] or _cra-cra_, almost deafens you with the wheezy bleating sound by which it earned its creole name; birds pipe: everything that bells, ululates, drones, clacks, guggles, joins the enormous chorus; and you fancy you see all the shadows vibrating to the force of this vocal storm.

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • The still-living Qaddafi is seen begging for mercy just before he is apparently executed as the crowd ululates and fires its Kalashnikov rifles in the air.

    FOXNews.com Chris Stirewalt 2011

  • His spot leaps out of the video clip: singing in English and Creole, he ululates in a way that reaches back to Afro-Haitian roots.

    NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2010

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