What is "ululate"

Usage examples of "ululate".

He had the cruiser racing, diving in and out of the traffic that grew heavier as he hit the center of town and diminished again as he roared into the industrial section the siren wailing in an ululating banshee cry.

I can be precise about the time because I recall that even as I glimpsed the glitter of bare steel, the ululating cry of the selam was echoing from where the mueddin stood on the gallery of the little mosque behind me.

Close behind, Arabists are ululating, shrill, merciless, among the red-orange stars over the crowds of derricks.

While he tipped the tankard back, the Mohocks thumped the table and ululated their war cry.

For a moment things went black, and then the Uran ululated horribly and Hartwell felt the icy orange body juice of the monster oozing out upon him.

Ignoring their suddenly spasming bodies and uncontrolled spitting and ululating, he rode the shock of the magical backlash into their minds, feeling the same pain they did.

In the distance she'd heard the ululating wail of several ambulances and knew that there must have been a nasty accident somewhere in the catchment area of St.

The weird, ululating cry, as of many voices, had an alchemizing power to transmute blood into ice water.

The contractions were longer now, lasting up to a minute, during which she bellowed and ululated as if it were death she were encountering, not life.

And while the women ululated and danced so that the heads of the infants strapped to their backs jerked like little black puppets and the men roared approval, Craig kissed her on the mouth.

His head was bent over the long fretboard, eyes closed, as he produced ululating tremolos with a complicated bow.

Whooping her ululating cry of challenge, Kelyn snatched the staff and rolled away from the creature, only to run into the bony legs of another.

The echoes of the explosion were still rolling out over the sea in ululating diminuendo when they were caught up and flung back by a series of muffled reports from the South.

We heard several grunts from the mare, no screams or long ululating cries, no weeping and complaining about her lot, or cursing the man who brought her to this condition.

When they recognized Moses, the women clapped and ululated shrilly, the greeting for a tribal chief, and the children ran beside the van, dancing and laughing with excitement at being so close to the great man.