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How to use jeer in a sentence

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They sneak in in the midnight hours, but grey-headed women come to jeer them as they pass.
If they jeer you, it means they do not like you, and I am going to look for another team.
In soccer it has nearly become acceptable to bait opposing fans, to chant and jeer at the other team's followers.
At no moment does he pass up the chance of a cheap sneer or a jeer.
Sponsored by the Douglas Students' Union Performing Arts Committee, the eclectic event includes music, spoken word, puppeteering, slide shows, and jeer leading.
The young men will jeer at them, insult them and dare them to do something.
Furthermore, some people tend to jeer at speakers to invalidate their speech.
He was free to jeer at her, humiliate her, gloat over the deaths of her comrades.
The shadow chancellor, a more pragmatic Labour politician, would rather stand up and jeer.
We will not jeer and sneer if they do the right thing and vote with the opposition on this.
Most sarcasm or sharp criticism is aimed at individuals, and a person wounded by a jeer or a sneer is more than likely to retaliate.
Being in a football stadium means you can sing, shout, jeer, swear and leap aroundworking off feelings you repress elsewhere.
By now, they had neared the town and passers-by began to jeer and point at them.
Barrack has its origins in British English, although in the UK it now usually means to jeer or denigrate an opposing team or players.
The armies started to shout and jeer at each other while the Carthaginian army was in the midst of crossing.
I'll jeer at hippies because that's helpful.
The students had no boundaries set and would jeer at me in the corridors.
All who see me jeer at me, they toss their heads and sneer.
Of all the major cultural awards handed out each year, it is the Mercury Prize that frequently meets with the biggest jeer from its intended public.
Particularly vocal audiences have been known to jeer poets off the stage.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was as if every drop of blood in the wood had found a voice to jeer him with.
If you liked, I could go over to the fountain and begin to jeer at their women folk.
Were these the people, then, who were going to jeer at his picture, provided it were found again?
When she sees her Salibrand so unmodiously accoutred, she will jeer him out of his periwig, and render him an Adamite cap-a-pie.
Mayhap, then, you'll come on deck and tell these merry men as much, for they do only jeer at me.
As we approached the soldiers, they began to jeer at us in a most insolent manner.
All very fine to jeer at it now in cold print but it goes down like hot cake that stuff.
But he was not the kind of scarecrow they would have dared to jeer at openly.
Then, when I had got as far out as my voice would reach, I began to jeer at the Cyclops.
Her Uncle Tom and Winifred seemed to jeer at her, to cheapen her.
Finding other means unavailing, he suddenly changed his tone, and began to jeer and banter him upon the mean prices he offered.
Not a voice was raised around the unhappy victim, except to jeer at his thirst.
We passed four men, and their greeting was maddening in its jeer.
The girl's defiant attitude only incited the workmen to jeer the more.
Now he gave jeer for jeer, and taunted the apes that jibed him.
Hideous and misshapen, mankind jeer at me as I pass the streets.
The shrill jeer of a newsboy broke in upon his pathetic speech.
Furneaux did jeer, but it was at his colleague's phenomenal luck.
The laborers began to jeer the travelers and by their insolence disturbed the equanimity even of the cool Athos, who urged on his horse against one of them.
They would jeer him, and, if practicable, pelt him with missiles.
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