hooting

present participle of hoot

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hooting
Verb
  • Then, a man stood up and started shouting at Harris.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • His clips are pretty rudimentary tributes to guys like Thomas Sankara, the former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, shouting them out with highlight reels and songs by 100 gecs and Jersey club collective TwerkNation28.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Raging at the decision, the 29-year-old Medvedev sprinted across the court to remonstrate angrily with Allensworth and whipped up a jeering New York crowd.
    Manasi Pathak, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Miller spoke after videos circulated online of large crowds in the Columbia Heights neighborhood jeering federal officers in the streets.
    Brett Samuels, The Hill, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • To celebrate our arrival, my fellow travelers and I run into the sea, hooting and hollering at the pins-and-needles cold.
    Chloe Berge, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The pair is seen crawling through a wildflower field, dancing, and jumping, but also hollering at each other, brandishing knives, and at some point, Lawrence licks a window with zeal.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • By the 1830s, politicians had stopped ridiculing America’s growing canal system.
    Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The show opened with a skit mocking Hegseth, portrayed by comedian Colin Jost, ridiculing the Defense Secretary's address to military leaders in Quantico, Virginia, last week.
    Chandelis Duster, NPR, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Head coach Sean McVay certainly acted like it, thrusting his fists through the air in triumph as Verse skipped down the field, howling at the sparsely populated crowd at M&T Bank Stadium.
    Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Males, in particular, showed more barking and howling when left with canine companions.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Elon Musk lashed out at Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in a series of insulting posts on his social media platform X on Tuesday, after Duffy suggested NASA may sideline SpaceX from its moon mission.
    Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The extremists are insulting you every single day.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • These Wrigleyville crowds should be packed in and bellowing.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Mejia takes time to explore human moments between the characters, from early mornings spent bellowing along to a playlist, to a double-date night.
    Book Marks September 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Wall Street is roaring, Silicon Valley is booming with the potential of Silicon Valley, unemployment is fairly steady and GDP is on the rise.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The souvenir stalls outside the stadium which do a roaring trade on matchdays are also feeling the squeeze from the lack of games — and the bad weather that accompanied the ones that were played recently against Chelsea and Sunderland.
    Andy Mitten, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
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“Hooting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hooting. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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