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Recent Examples of neigh
Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
The band joked about adding a neighing horse to the intro, and Rimes quickly inserted that sound from his plug-in collection.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2024
Laughing, always laughing—at the dickey birds hopping in the tree branches, at the urchin who was burned to a crisp by an angry mob, at the slandering neighbor woman who got turned into a neighing donkey.
—Okwiri Oduor, Harper's Magazine, 15 June 2022
No such juvenilia intrudes upon the rather more adult-ish proceedings of the new film The Wanting Mare, in which horses neigh and stamp at the margins of a bleak, majestic world.
—Jason Kehe, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
Horse trailers lined up in rows in Island Grove Regional Park, their passengers neighing indiscriminately.
—John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 28 July 2019
Goats and sheep staying in the barn bleated, and horses neighed as the crowd of people grew.
—David Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 23 July 2019
There in the the headquarters of Togo’s secret police — the notorious Research and Intelligence Service — the captives were beaten, waterboarded and forced to kneel and neigh like horses.
—Siobhan O'Grady, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
Across the barn, another horse was getting new shoes and neighed.
—Jason Nark, Philly.com, 23 Mar. 2018
Verb
Across from them in their usual stalls stood the eight neighing horses.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for neigh
Verb
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Waffles, patient and unbothered as onlookers walked around and stopped to gaze, nickered as another horse on the other side of the massive stalls whinnied.—
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McCaffrey is whinnying as the workhorse.—
Noun
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Junior Heifers One building was filled with the almost deafening hum of high-power hair dryers and the occasional moo.—
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How moo moo came to be be The Facebook group and the resulting moo moo movement began with a conversation between Huckins and a friend, according to both women.—
Verb
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Waffles, patient and unbothered as onlookers walked around and stopped to gaze, nickered as another horse on the other side of the massive stalls whinnied.—
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The soldiers muttered encouragement; their horses nickered.—
Noun
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My father mistakes it for the verb to bray, like a donkey.—
Noun
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An onboard synthesizer manipulates a small set of core sounds to mimic everything from the roar of a jet plane to the flushing of a toilet through a little speaker in the Brick.—
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The people want to see Varang’s fierce roars!—
Noun
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If the bark has fallen off or the twigs snap cleanly under light pressure, the branch is probably dead.—
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It is made from the inner bark of a tree.—
Noun
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This not-quite-title song, which is nearly eight minutes long, is a sort of mini-suite, opening with a dog barking, giving way to an acoustic-guitar melody accompanying polyphonic vocals, then becoming electric and crashingly alive, until the relentless screech of a guitar drags you to the end.—
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As the band blares, Georgia fans bark for the Dawgs and Alabama faithful screech Roll Tide.—
Noun
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For the record, actor Henry Travers pronounces the word library in a desperate squeal.—
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The duo jumped and screamed in celebration, with their dogs joining the fun with a few barks and squeals.—
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“Neigh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neigh. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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