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How to use jeers in a sentence

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Three hundred policemen cleared the yard outside and the couple were taken away in a police van to boos and jeers from the waiting crowd.
Every sportsperson and spectator owes the official a profound debt of gratitude, but instead we often greet them with jeers and personal abuse.
After that disgraceful performance the players should have been subjected to a torrent of jeers and whistles.
Making their way into the shop, they ignored the wolf-whistles and jeers from the group of girls, ordered two strawberry milkshakes, and left.
Further jeers, it seemed, were never far from the lips of the more vociferous elements in this splendid stadium.
As soon as they turn the corner, Tommy's behavior turns to taunting and jeers.
Pleas for caution and restraint from the minority who still clung to dwindling hopes of agreement were drowned with jeers and catcalls.
Boos and jeers interrupted a speech by United States Sect. of State Colin Powell.
Not surprisingly, perhaps, his appointment was greeted with jeers, groans and moans.
A lone Englishman, dressed in a white Rugby shirt, bravely ventured through the bar to some friendly jeers.
The new guy whispered something to Jessica that Taylor couldn't hear due to the laughter, jeers, taunts, and whistles of the other students.
He would prefer to die than hear the jeers of people rejoicing at his downfall.
They returned to the hall in time for the next item on the agenda, amid jeers and taunts from the Treasury benches.
He raises his arms in delight and turns to face the crowd, he hears jeers and boos.
The jeers there were from the Opposition, who knew that Mr Downer had failed to deny that either he or his Office were involved.
As the march swung past Number 10 there was a cacophony of whistles, boos, jeers and insults.
Unlike in the FA Cup tie between the teams last season, these jeers won't be read as being racist, it was just simple, good old-fashioned booing.
Whether he likes it or not, Andy Reid is a once and future hero in Philadelphia, where his name initially generated jeers, not cheers.
Smith did not take it well and promptly returned the favour, carding Gazza to a volley of jeers from the capacity crowd, Hibs fans included.
Conservative critics should pay closer attention to what South Park so irreverently jeers at and mocks.
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Examples from Classical Literature
So that, apart from other missiles, our shaven heads were sure to be pelted with jeers.
For once in his life Red had nothing to say in answer to the jibes and jeers of his mates.
This little Claude de Bullion was a very great personage, though the tininess of his stature provoked all kinds of jeers.
If you asked for a lift in Lewisham, High Street, your only reply would be jeers.
For some time there were no interruptions, no jeers, no doubtful pleasantries.
Why should Heathcote escape the jeers of mockers, while he had to bear the brunt of them?
Killed in a Curtiss at Norton, Kan., having been driven to fly in unsuitable weather by the jeers of a hostile crowd.
When Thomas eventually put in an appearance he was greeted with jeers.
He snatched it and bade the slave take her choice, amid the jeers of the crowd.
When Red Death released him at last, he ran away like a very madman, pursued by the jeers of the bystanders.
Well, these mortal insults, these jeers on the part of someone unknown, end at last in an enjoyment which sometimes reaches the highest degree of voluptuousness.
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