peanut gallery

Example Sentences

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In fight week, he bristled at the mention of criticism, describing detractors as a "peanut gallery that doesn't exist" and insisting the question of whether he belongs no longer concerns him.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025

And, barring a stunning comeback, McIlroy will have the best possible response to the peanut gallery: for the second time in his career, he’ll have won the Ryder Cup on American turf.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 27, 2025

Because Musk made Twitter private, the peanut gallery no longer gets a window into Twitter’s financial performance.

From Slate • Feb. 6, 2023

And as many have observed, Heard has been subjected to much harsher treatment among this century’s peanut gallery — social media — than has Depp.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2022

A nonrestrictive relative clause is set offby commas, dashes, or parentheses, and expresses a comment from the peanut gallery, as in The pair of shoes, which cost five thousand dollars, was hideous.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker