hooted

past tense of hoot

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hooted
Verb
  • Perry shouted into her microphone.
    Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Johnson shouted as the players echoed his words, urging him to repeat them.
    Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • McIlroy has faced the brunt of the insults from spectators, who also jeered and yelled at his wife throughout the weekend.
    Chandelis Duster, NPR, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Hundreds of protestors jeered Netanyahu from the street outside the UN secretariat.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • When he wasn’t being ridiculed and ignored, Tupac was writing.
    Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Colleagues of a New Mexico police officer who was bitten by a K-9 during a training exercise ridiculed him in the aftermath of the attack, his attorney told Newsweek.
    Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As soon as the injury happened, Buccaneers players Tristan Wirfs and Tez Johnson immediately hollered for trainers, with Johnson putting his head in his hands after the injury happened.
    Mark Kern, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Martin was onstage with Sweeney, Michôd and the rest of the cast as the Princess of Wales Theatre crowd hollered.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Minnesota academic later insulted Kirk's intellect.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Holmes insulted the man, throwing hundred-dollar bills at him.
    Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Women in the front row of his shows now howled for D’Angelo to disrobe.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The wind howled, rattling metal signs and tugging at our clothes as the dust swallowed everything in sight.
    Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Parmenter said the other student, also 11, used transphobic slurs during the attack and derided his child’s identity.
    Samantha Riedel, Them., 10 Oct. 2025
  • In practice, despite his rhetoric, Israel’s longest serving prime minister’s security policy was widely seen as cautious and relatively restrained, even derided as cowardly by political rivals, who also mocked his inability to make decisive moves.
    Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Others rushed to their coastal villas and roared away on luxury speed boats.
    Danny Makki, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The crowd roared in jubilation and waved blue-and-white Israeli flags.
    Greg Myre, NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
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