Verb
He tried to ignore the jeering crowd.
The crowd jeered him when he struck out.
The prisoner was jeered by an angry mob. Noun
ignored the jeers of the other team's fans and just focused on making her free throw shot
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Robert Sanchez lost the trust of Stamford Bridge to be the team’s starting goalkeeper long ago and has been booed and jeered at times.—Liam Twomey, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025 With the phone still to her ear, Molly is confronted with a vision of herself at seven years old (Annabelle Toomey); the little girl is dancing around the room in a pink ballet leotard and jeering at her adult counterpart.—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
The footage shows Vance smiling and waving to the crowd from his box seat as the jeers continued.—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025 The former Ohio senator responded to the jeers with a smile while waving to the crowd and sipping his wine, as seen in a video captured by Andrew Roth, a global affairs correspondent for the Guardian.—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jeer
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