Often, the mother will ululate in joy over the honor that Allah has bestowed upon her family. |
Above the drums, singing, and stomping of feet, women ululate shrilly to express their excitement. |
The wind bellies thick in the shadows near my aunts, as one of Ray's sisters begins to keen and another to ululate. |
In the half-register below, nine women mourners weep and ululate, their hands hiding their faces or pouring dust on their heads. |
It concentrates on the Golovin family from Obukhovo, a village renamed when the new serfdom of collectivisation arrived, the church bells taken away to be melted down as peasants ululate. |
We may weep a little rather than ululate, gnash our teeth or wail to the rhythm of a thousand drums. |