ululation in a sentence
Examples
- Ululation is used to some extent by south European women The Galician " aturuxo " is performed with accompanied vocalization from the throat.
- Ululation is commonly practised in the Middle East, as well as in most of Africa, the Persian Gulf, and Central and South Asia.
- Minutes later, the streets of Algiers reverberated with hundreds of rounds of celebratory rifle shots fired into the sky and the joyous ululation of Algerian women.
- Thousands of relatives greeted them with ululations, tears and hugs as they arrived in buses at dropoff points in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
- He was involved in the formation of the NDP Youth Wing, encouraging its meetings to include ancestral prayers, traditional costume, and ululation by women.
- The beat of tom-toms and wild, high-pitched chants and ululations as skirted men with painted faces tumble through flames and skip fiery ropes.
- Instead of the ululations of joy that often accompany news of a suicide bomber's death, the sound of wailing was heard from Khatib's house.
- "The ordinances of Kengo are nothing more than useless pieces of paper, " he said to the jubilant ululations of about 5, 000 backers.
- Her suggestion was greeted with cheers and ululation by members of the Mugabe's ruling party women's league who were bussed in for the opening ceremony.
- His chapter on the humble watering can turns into a complaint about declining water resources, while his instructions on how to prune trees lapse into an ululation over deforestation.