How To Use Jeering In A Sentence
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The Lion jeeringly replied, "It was righteously yours, eh? the gift of a friend?
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But he had to raise his voice to be heard over jeering and whistling from centre-right senators.
Times, Sunday Times
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He and his mates are laughing and jeering at their next-door neighbour: a crazy old man, stripped to the waist, performing what looks like some kind of weird callisthenics routine in his backyard.
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But he had to raise his voice to be heard over jeering and whistling from centre-right senators.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had stopped to listen and offer words of advice, but the other members of that clique had stepped out of the shadows, laughing and jeering.
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His lips curled in thin lines of contempt as he watched through eyes the shouting, jeering crowd.
Christianity Today
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From this oft-repeated prophecy Collins was known to every stockman in three States as the Coyote Prophet, the title a jeering one at first, then bestowed with increasing respect as men saw many of his prophecies fulfilled.
The Yellow Horde
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With the jeering and catcalling from the Government benches, I missed the answer.
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Dan's friends cackled in the background, but he ignored their laughter and jeering comments.
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She saw the "trolleys" fly past her in quick succession, and it seemed to her they whizzed jeeringly at her as they sped.
The Governess
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Anyone caught with a copy was flogged in the stadium before a jeering crowd of onlookers.
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The female escaped but the male deer suffered appalling injuries as it tried to get away from the crowds of jeering onlookers.
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There was loud jeering from the opposition parties when the prime minister stood up to speak.
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The shouting and jeering that you see on the telly is such a tiny bit of the job.
The Sun
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Squeezing her eyes tight she tried to block out Reed's cold, insistent taunts and the jeering catcalls that seemed to get louder with each passing moment.
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The throng of people was excited, jeering and mocking, jostling the two who held on to the man at the centre of it all.
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Anyone whose phone rings rushes outside to take the call, the jeering ringing in his ears.
Times, Sunday Times
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He and his mates are laughing and jeering at their next-door neighbour: a crazy old man, stripped to the waist, performing what looks like some kind of weird callisthenics routine in his backyard.
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Further allegations of anti-Catholicism from prominent figures including Cardinal Logue aroused sectarian feelings which led to jeering and hissing on 8 May.
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Anyone whose phone rings rushes outside to take the call, the jeering ringing in his ears.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unfortunately, this success seems to have come at a price, with certain sections of the crowd indulging in boorish, jeering and in some cases lewd behaviour.
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It was the look of them, partly: the skanky paper, the low-mirth smudginess of their production; but also the dismalness of the schoolyard world they portrayed: discipline versus cheekiness, small victories, practical jokes, jeering, every teacher undernourished, every kid drawn as though he had rickets.
Kalooki Nights
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The stoker laughed truculently, and Billy ventured upon a faint echo of the jeering cachinnation.
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
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Her first day was filled with jeering and taunts but she remained patient with them.
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The shouting and jeering that you see on the telly is such a tiny bit of the job.
The Sun
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There was loud jeering from the opposition parties when the prime minister stood up to speak.
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THE jeering can be heard from miles away.
The Sun
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He lay there, the men standing about laughing and jeering.
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And the neoconservative school of columnists was almost unanimous in jeering at Rushdie for being hoist by his own petard.
Holy Writ
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The "blacklegs" who refused to stop work were escorted to and from the works in Westwood by jeering strikers.
Undefined
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While in the US, however, people rarely needed me to repeat my name, calling out to me without inhibitions or jeering me.
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Hecklers interrupted her speech with jeering.
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The female escaped but the male deer suffered appalling injuries as it tried to get away from the crowds of jeering onlookers.
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Even worse than the placards was the picture of a crowd of locals jeering at the man's wife as she was driven out of town.
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The crowd was hooting and jeering at the speaker.
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Two days after, when we were sitting at our comfortable four-hours, in came little Benjie, running out of breath -- just at the individual moment of time my wife and me were jeering one another, about how we would behave when we came to be grand ladies and gentlemen, keeping a flunkie maybe -- to tell us, that when he was playing at the bools, on the plainstones before the old kirk, he had seen the deaf and dumb spaewife harled away to the tolbooth, for stealing a pair of trowsers that were hanging drying on a tow in Juden Elshinder's back close.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
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Exactly seventeen years later, I find myself in a head to head confrontation with the army, while the public at large is jeering and mocking me from the sidelines.
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But he had to raise his voice to be heard over jeering and whistling from centre-right senators.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Hillary supporters did her no favor with their jeering from the sidelines.
Full Michigan delegation with half-vote to be seated by Dems
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There we stood huddled together amid a jeering crowd in a remote bus station of Hunan.
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a jeering crowd
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Well, there was a good deal of laughing and jeering, especially on the part of the men (these were idlers: the fishermen were all gone away in the boats); but the women, who had to provide for their households, knew when they had a cheap bargain; and the sale of the 'cuddies' proceeded briskly.
The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols
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They are respected members of the community and for his family to see him ignoring and jeering his elders and betters is very disappointing.
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It follows two deaf-mute dockers who are completely cut-off from the outside world and are constantly pursued by groups of jeering children.
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Half-time was over and I could hear the crowd cheering and jeering.
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Her gravelly laughter was the obverse of infectious: a jeering sound to put you on the alert.
MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
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THE jeering can be heard from miles away.
The Sun
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His lips curled in thin lines of contempt as he watched through eyes the shouting, jeering crowd.
Christianity Today
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Many of the men chuckled hardily at her pathetic attempt, jeering her with foul words and phrases.
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Their tenor was boastful and jeering and the only reasonable inference was they thought they had somehow fooled and misled the court.
The Sun
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With the crowd jeering and whistling, the USA pulled away in the fourth quarter to secure victory.
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And crowds of possibly a few thousand stand around jeering and throwing things, apparently having been whipped into a frenzy by the rabble-rousing of said local religious authorities.
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The unbearable note of flippant jeering, which is underneath almost all modern utterance.
The Plumed Serpent
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There was constant jeering and interruption from the floor.
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He was the one who led the other squires in their jeering taunts that had resulted in Rheyce's own sound thrashing.
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Clothahump turned from trying to refocus a finger on the jeering famulus and glanced angrily at the otter.
A Corridor in the Asylum
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His lips curled in thin lines of contempt as he watched through eyes the shouting, jeering crowd.
Christianity Today
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Of course, he was drinking ginger ale, despite the jeering he had received at the bar when he ordered the non-alcoholic drink.
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Exactly seventeen years later, I find myself in a head to head confrontation with the army, while the public at large is jeering and mocking me from the sidelines.
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But the little children and dirt-pie manufacturers were presently succeeded by followers of a larger growth, and a number of lads and girls from the factory being let loose at this hour, joined the mob, and began laughing, jeering, hooting, and calling opprobrious names at the Frenchman.
The History of Pendennis
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He interrupted my speech with jeering.
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Of course, he was drinking ginger ale, despite the jeering he had received at the bar when he ordered the non-alcoholic drink.
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I told the feller in jeering vernacular, 'thy sister my darling, thy name?' —
Archive 2008-04-01
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One of the most memorable parts of the State of the Union was when the President had to remind certain jeering members of congress that taking budgetary steps this fiscal year that don’t take effect until next fiscal year is “how budgeting works.”
Matthew Yglesias » That’s How Budgeting Works
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The youths still hanging around on the stoop opposite began cheering, or jeering, he couldn't tell which.
COMPULSION
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But Twain, Howells, and James were jeeringly described by Mencken as " draft - dodgers ".
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If Xblogger sets up a “funny” site or blog section about Yblogger – if Xblogger’s pals use the comments of that blog for jeering at Yblogger on a regular basis – if a Technorati feed on “Yblogger” repeatedly turns up hateful remarks by Xblogger and pals – I think that’s bullying whether the jeering is sexual or not.
Scripting News for 3/29/2007 « Scripting News Annex
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A new chain of cheering started and men began to crowd Tristan and pat him on the back, laughing and jeering.
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His expression was jeering in its mockery of her ignorance.
Ride the Thunder
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Two days after, when we were sitting at our comfortable four-hours, in came little Benjie, running out of breath -- just at the dividual moment of time my wife and me were jeering one another, about how we would behave when we came to be grand ladies and gentlemen, keeping a flunkie maybe -- to tell us, that when he was playing at the bools, on the plainstones before the old kirk, he had seen the deaf and dumb spaewife harled away to the tolbooth, for stealing a pair of trowsers that were hanging drying on a tow in Juden Elshinder's back close.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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Jeering at the White Logic, I go out to join my guests at table, and with assumed seriousness to discuss the current magazines and the silly doings of the world's day, whipping every trick and ruse of controversy through all the paces of paradox and persiflage.
Chapter 37
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= Mephistoph´eles = (5 _syl. _), the sneering, jeering, leering attendant demon of Faust in Goethe’s drama of _Faust_, and Gounod’s opera of the same name.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
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spoke in a sneering jeering manner
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All the life about him - the odors of stale vegetables and soapsuds, the slatternly form of his sister, and the jeering face of Mr. Higginbotham - was a dream.
Chapter 11
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Her gravelly laughter was the obverse of infectious: a jeering sound to put you on the alert.
MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
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Jeering and cursing us, the guards ran in the fire hose and played the fierce streams on us, dungeon by dungeon, hour after hour, until our bruised flesh was battered all anew by the violence with which the water smote us, until we stood knee-deep in the water which we had raved for and for which now we raved to cease.
Chapter 4
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There we stood huddled together amid a jeering crowd in a remote bus station.
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The children shoved past him - pushing him back into his hallway - jeering and swearing.
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Even Ryan Giggs, especially Ryan Giggs, felt a long way from home, hearing the unaccustomed sound of jeering in his first foray down the patch of turf he knows as well as his back garden.
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Placing one arm akimbo, he laughed merrily, almost obnoxiously, and his father joined him with that deep jeering guffaw Wilfred loathed so desperately.
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But he came down again gently and easily the next second, and looked jeeringly over his shoulder as he slipped earthwards.
THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
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Angry crowds attended public meetings organised by the Commission, jeering and booing the speakers.
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My own voice sounded like a whisper when I screamed for him to stop, lost in the crowd of jeering students and Steph's cacophony of screeches.
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Anyone whose phone rings rushes outside to take the call, the jeering ringing in his ears.
Times, Sunday Times
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The shouting and jeering that you see on the telly is such a tiny bit of the job.
The Sun
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There was loud jeering from the opposition parties when the prime minister stood up to speak.
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THE jeering can be heard from miles away.
The Sun
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We will fight jeering jerries on the pitches," proclaimed the Daily Star with a picture of England striker Wayne Rooney in a tin hat.
Daily News & Analysis
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The sound of several hundred bookies and professionals all shouting at once, all jeering and taunting.
