Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hooting
Verb
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The move seemed to surprise Fallon, who naturally tried to quell her tears by shouting at her.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Nov. 2025 -
As the speeches began, chaos consumed the day as air horns were blasted, pages from pornographic magazines thrown down from the balconies and white mice released on to the floor, before the ‘nun’ started dancing up and down the aisles shouting comic profanity.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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But he was overwhelmed by the jeering chorus of students.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
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An unrecognizable Sean Hayes plays the jeering host, Gary Greenbacks.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Early this season, Coen, a former UMass quarterback who coached under Sean McVay with the Los Angeles Rams, was seen hollering at Lawrence on the sideline after an incompletion.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Dec. 2025
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Probst is as bad as any of them about this — look back no further than the amount of airtime on Wednesday’s finale that was spent hollering about Savannah making Survivor history by winning as many challenges as five other women in show history.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2025
Verb
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But this heavy tide of content ridiculing any notion of his lasting importance to the American republic suggests a far different fate.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
21 Dec. 2025
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By the 1830s, politicians had stopped ridiculing America’s growing canal system.—
Matthew Smith,
The Conversation,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
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In celebration, the pair could be seen quite literally howling at the moon with cocktails in hand — sans pants, of course.—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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As the season shifts toward winter, the polar jet stream begins to shift south and can stir up storms that produce howling winds and gigantic waves in November on the Great Lakes.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Despite his mediator role, Rodríguez is also known for his explosive temperament, lashing out in Congress and publicly threatening and insulting members of the opposition.—
Bloomberg Wire,
Dallas Morning News,
4 Jan. 2026
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That doesn't mean your comment can't be casual or in your own words, but the council will almost always bar people from swearing or insulting others.—
Cate Charron,
IndyStar,
30 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Sports radio can be loud and raucous, blaring with bluster and bellowing.—
Scott Simon,
NPR,
8 Nov. 2025
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These Wrigleyville crowds should be packed in and bellowing.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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This came after her previous comments deriding many accusers in the wake of the #MeToo movement.—
Lee Smith,
CNN Money,
28 Dec. 2025
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But not long after a fan Jerry-rigged a tool to get the sneakers down, social media was ablaze with accusations that the designer had given away a pair of fakes, as well as criticism deriding him as a one-trick pony.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
11 Dec. 2025
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“Hooting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hooting. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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