heckle

Example Sentences

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Holding up homemade cards as 'Silent Night' played in the background - emulating a scene from the film 'Love Actually' - Hearn expertly avoided being interrupted, despite Eubank Jr's attempts to heckle him.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025

“Tiger With Cubs” depicts a tigress nursing her young under pine trees as magpies heckle them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

Passersby who witnessed this altercation began to heckle the police, demanding they take the handcuffs off Smith.

From Salon • May 13, 2025

Now Israel's minister for police, Itamar Ben-Gvir was on hand to keep order as some 30,000 people took part in the annual event that he used to heckle as an "abomination".

From Reuters • Jun. 1, 2023

Stanton could think on her feet, and she refused to be intimidated by those who dared to heckle her as she spoke.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling