heckled

past tense of heckle

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of heckled These remarks come after HeatWorld reported that the sisters have been concerned about their safety, with tensions rising after Eugenie was recently heckled by a man making comments about her father in March. Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 29 July 2026 She was heckled again during the 2025 WNBA Finals trophy ceremony. Annie Costabile, New York Times, 24 July 2026 Despite her clear influence, Rico was mercilessly heckled by Carti fans during her performance at the Portland tour stop. Mehan Jayasuriya, Pitchfork, 24 July 2026 Royal Melbourne was a week after Reed was penalized for improving his lie in the sand, and Aussies heckled him endlessly. ABC News, 14 July 2026 Everyone is mad because fans at a SPORTING EVENT openly heckled a player? Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026 In his decade-long career, he’s often been heckled and cursed at by spectators during domestic matches. Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 15 June 2026 They were considered to have strange physical afflictions or weak mental attitudes, and some people with endocrine diseases were even dismissed as ‘freaks’ and heckled in circuses or locked away in institutions. Literary Hub, 20 May 2026 Crow-Armstrong was heckled by the woman, who sat just behind the fencing, and in return threw a vulgar and explicit phrase her way, as seen in a video circulating on social media. Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heckled
Verb
  • Nick Aldis’ wife Mickie James was ringside, where she was taunted by an arrogant Gunther.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Pfister taunted them as his wife ridiculed them for trying to cover their windows.
    Kyung Lah, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Verb
  • De Zerbi teased that system in front of a small crowd at the Allianz Stadium during an open session the night before.
    Elias Burke, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Which is teased in a post-credits scene that plays out almost exactly like the post-credits scene from the first Amazing Spider-Man.
    Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Golf's media establishment mocked defectors as sellouts and eagerly counted down the days until LIV's collapse.
    Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
  • In the early 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty wrote stories denying the famine that Joseph Stalin’s forced-collectivization policies were causing in Ukraine and mocked journalists who reported the truth.
    James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 29 July 2026

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