ululation

• Helva, already confused, did not at first catch the significance of the gas or the fact that the ululation was reaching her ship's outer ears, not issuing from the dumb contact circuits. —  The Ship Who Sang
• She went out, slamming the door so violently that the wobbly emitted a long-drawn ululation, and squirmed violently in its chair CHAPTER IV Botanical Stoolpigeon WHEN John Carstairs appeared in the doorway of Gleason's sleeping turret the five white-lipped people gathered there stared at him as though he were a visitor from Saturn. —  June, 1943
• Slowly the crowd lifted its heads and from several hundred throats came a high-pitched ululation, clearly a traditional response. —  And when Elric had told his three lies to Cymoril, his betrothed, and had set his ambitious cousin Yyrkoon as Regent on the Ru
• She made the small ululation which expressed her gladness at his presence. —  "You can't leave now," Daniel Holm told his son
• Though the place had been closed since noon, it was now open and lighted, and full of people silently and rapidly working There came a sound, and more than a sound, a deep pervasive ululation which seemed at first to be born in all the air and under the earth, sourceless. —  The Cosmic Rape

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