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Synonyms for ululate

to utter or emit a long, mournful, plaintive sound

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Synonyms for ululate

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When she saw him dead, she just ululated and asked that no-one cry, saying her son had achieved martyrdom."
Receiving voters in front of gates of the ballot stations, the female teams ululated and chanted names of their nominees and their slogans in a last-moment bid to influence decision making by the voters, shortly before being alone at ballot-casting booths.
As the square was filled with song and colour, excited locals ululated, clapped their hands and cheered.
After Tantawy's testimony, a Mubarak supporter ululated and others cheered, in apparent celebration.
I can't speak for the Indians who just grunted, ululated, and waved their bows and arrows about.
Women ululated in triumph and spontaneous cries of joy erupted.
Outside Mubarak's Oruba Palace in northern Cairo, women on balconies ululated with the joyous tongue-trilling used to mark weddings and births.
In some neighborhoods, women on balconies ululated with the joyous tongue-trilling used to mark weddings and births.
They cried, embraced and ululated when the news reached them through a public address system.
Incidentally, as the 500,000 Kenyans at Uhuru Park danced and ululated, scores of Western diplomats and human rights activists were livid as Sudan's president, Omar Bashir, paraded on the podium enjoying Kenya's moment in the sun.
At Zaidi's house, his family and a crowd of supporters eagerly awaiting him cheered and ululated.
When Haniyeh returned to his home, fireworks exploded from the roof and women ululated. He was surrounded by armed guards from the Hamas militia and wasn't able to leave his car because of the crush of reporters.