ululations

Indeed, the ululations were a muted gesture of outstretched arms with splayed fingers waving in the air.

AllDeaf.com Miss-Delectable 2010

Indeed, the ululations were a muted gesture of outstretched arms with splayed fingers waving in the air.

AllDeaf.com Miss-Delectable 2010

"It was time for our people to come back to their homelands," said Deng Wol Kuach, a broad-shouldered man in brown cords and a dusty black blazer, helping people off the bus as the sound of drums and ululations filled the air in the town of Aweil, in northern Bahr el Ghazal state.

Southern Sudan holds separation vote after thousands make long journey to freedom 2011

But I have no doubts, none at all, that she will one day enter triumphantly into that glorious "future country" to the rhythmic ululations of millions of her people.

Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound! Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010

My mother, my father, the footsteps to music and songs we haven't memorised, the sounds of their gypsy laughs, the ululations of the farmer women with all the happiness they can summon, the humming of my grandmother of Jerusalem prayers, the untamed happiness …

Global Voices in English » Palestine: School Graduation In Gaza 2009

But I have no doubts, none at all, that she will one day enter triumphantly into that glorious "future country" to the rhythmic ululations of millions of her people.

Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound! Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010

Goldsmith, John Cooley of the Christian Science Monitor and I showed up, wading through a huge crowd of Arab men in the courtyard who were being whipped up by the ululations of two pink-clad, veiled women.

Lessons From Gadhafi's Debut George Melloan 2011

But I have no doubts, none at all, that she will one day enter triumphantly into that glorious "future country" to the rhythmic ululations of millions of her people.

Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound! Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010

But I have no doubts, none at all, that she will one day enter triumphantly into that glorious "future country" to the rhythmic ululations of millions of her people.

Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound! Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010

That's why the mournful cry often rises from information-hungry readers like ululations in a Sophocles tragedy: Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?

Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Unbearable Lightness of Reading Dana Milbank 2010