Examples of jeer in a Sentence
Verb
He tried to ignore the jeering crowd.
The crowd jeered him when he struck out.
The prisoner was jeered by an angry mob.
Noun
ignored the jeers of the other team's fans and just focused on making her free throw shot
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Lolita C. Baldor, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025
Soto had only one hit in 10 at-bats in the three games as he was relentlessly booed and jeered by the Yankee Stadium fans.
—Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
Cam Inman, Mercury News, 16 May 2025
There had never been physical violence against the group, but there were insults, jeers, accusations that the marchers themselves support genocide.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 8 June 2025
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Verb
Hundreds of protesters facing them jeered in English and Spanish, telling the troops to go home.
—Lolita C. Baldor, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025
Soto had only one hit in 10 at-bats in the three games as he was relentlessly booed and jeered by the Yankee Stadium fans.
—Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
Noun
Seemingly every time Messi touched the ball, the crowd reacted in unison, more so with cheers than jeers.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 16 May 2025
There had never been physical violence against the group, but there were insults, jeers, accusations that the marchers themselves support genocide.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 8 June 2025
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“Jeer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jeer. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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