What is "ululating"

Usage examples of "ululating".

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.

And as the Vulgs gave voice to long, ululating howls and raced up the slope, the Elfess turned to the craggy face of the bluff, seeking a safe route.

He stopped and raised his head and howled an ululating call, and was answered in kind by the Vulg pack below.

Over and above the ululating threnody of the wind we could hear an almost constant grinding, crashing, and deep-throated booming as millions of tons of racked and tortured ice, under the influence of the gale and some mighty pressure center heaven knew how many hundreds of miles away, reared and twisted and tore and cracked, one moment forming another rafted ridge as a layer of ice, perhaps ten feet thick, screeched and roared and clambered on to the shoulders of another and then another, the next rending apart in indescribably violent cacophony to open up a new lead, black, wind-torn water that started to skim over with ice almost as soon as it was formed.

They heard it, a deep, low-pitched, ululating moaning that boded no good at all.

She held her hands over the drow girl, palms down, and let out a haunting, ululating cry.

Behind her raced several of her maidens, all lofting bright swords and emitted the eerie, ululating cry.

Liriel heard the unmistakable hiss and crack of a snakehead whip and the ululating cry of the Dark Maiden's warriors as they ran to aid one of their own.

To one side was a table laden with steamed and stuffed fruits, to the other was an ornately filigreed lyssomwood panel, the better, doubtless, to screen him from the ululating din of the streets and boulevards below.

She could hear a sudden burst of shouts from the street below, the ululating prayers briefly interrupted, the altercation discordant after the unwinding music of the chants.

The kite dipped once, then soared heavenward, and the boy made a brief ululating sound of triumph, only to be cut short by his mother's angry cry of anxiety as she pulled him back to Im-Thera.

He shook his rifle at the sky and called out something in that same ululating voice.

A hundred Siad warriors leaped to their feet from less than a hundred meters away and charged while screaming their ululating war cry.

It was a high-pitched noise infused with a yelping triumph and thrilled through with a ululating and gleeful quality that suggested that the creatures who made such a sound were come willingly and even gladly to this field of slaughter.

They all made their devilish, ululating scream as they attacked, and the preacher's blood ran chill as the terrible sound washed across the hilltop.