How to Use catcall in a Sentence

catcall

noun
  • The pitcher heard angry catcalls as he walked off the field.
  • The catcalls were the loudest in the sixth, when Arizona scored six runs against Jon Niese to put the game out of reach.
    James Wagner, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2016
  • Noa took photos with the men who catcalled her, and put their catcalls in the captions.
    Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Groans, catcalls and even some boos filled the hotel ballroom at times.
    Rick Maese, The Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2017
  • But Mr. Trump still draws his share of catcalls — some subtle, others not.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2017
  • But one thing men and women have been doing wrong for so many years is ignoring the catcalls.
    Maureen Sherry, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2017
  • And there were few catcalls when Peterman entered in the second half in place of starter Mike Glennon.
    Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Despite stares and catcalls on the street, Anna is excited to use clothes as a method of empowerment.
    Hayley Krischer, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Sometimes sexism is obvious: a guy hurling a crude catcall from a moving car.
    Kaitlin Menza, Marie Claire, 8 Mar. 2017
  • The first black couple to move into the development, William and Daisy Myers, were besieged and subjected to cross burnings and racist catcalls.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
  • This time, there was cursing, catcalls, cries for his job, jeers so intense that Chavez Ravine momentarily appeared to sag under their weight.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Warmth wasn’t all that greeted Feinstein, who heard catcalls throughout from a crowd far more demanding than the one that greeted Harris the following day.
    Laura King, latimes.com, 28 Aug. 2017
  • My body got lots of unwanted attention from boys — mainly comments and catcalls, and a bunch of older boys surrounding me in the back of the school bus to watch my boobs bounce as the bus driver hit every pothole on the way home from school.
    Neelanjana Banerjee, Teen Vogue, 5 June 2018
  • There was a heckling audience, and catcalls at some of the Democratic candidates for governor.
    John Sharp, AL.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The catcalls in the Bronx are particularly pointed because of Keuchel’s history with the Yankees, having shut them out for six innings in the 2015 wild-card game and for seven innings in the opener of this series.
    Billy Witz, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
  • And that wasn’t unfounded: while some cards were modest and polite, others were basically catcalls.
    Photograph Courtesy Alan Mays, National Geographic, 4 Jan. 2016
  • The women reported a broader range of incidents, from catcalls to forcible rape, and their accounts, unlike the men’s, were shot through with either actual or perceived threats of violence.
    Peggy Orenstein, The Cut, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Neither do their discussions of issues from Picasso to catcalls.
    Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The two sparred on semantics, prompting more catcalls and muttered obscenities from observers.
    Anh Do, latimes.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Tafoya has been doing promotional work for Secret deodorant, with a campaign spotlighting women in the football world who've overcome the catcalls, prejudice and machismo to stand out in the field.
    USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Women have been violently attacked for rejecting date invitations, failing to thank men who hold open doors for them, and declining to respond to catcalls.
    Claire Lampen, SELF, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Trump's overall presentation drew catcalls from his critics.
    David Jackson, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2018
  • DeVos said, reading her prepared text in a measured tone despite continuing waves of boos, catcalls and scattered applause at Bethune-Cookman University.
    Washington Post, 10 May 2017
  • Pignolet takes quotidian aspects of women’s lives — cosmetics, tampons, the crude catcalls that men toss at women on the street — and renders them in Mediterranean-style ceramics, including tiles and vases.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • In addition to enduring catcalls and curses, he was sometimes pulled into the ring during bouts, tossed across the floor and subjected to ritual humiliation before being rescued by his brawny brethren.
    Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
  • After the filibuster ended, supporters disrupted Senate proceedings — with catcalls, cheers and chants from the public gallery above the Senate floor — and prevented senators from voting on the bill before midnight.
    Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram, 20 June 2018
  • Women can’t move freely, without being subject to stares, comments, questions, catcalls, solicitations, threats.
    National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2019
  • The family has reported several other incidents of harassment in the past several months, including sporadic catcalls and hostile shouts.
    Lauren Lumpkin, baltimoresun.com, 12 July 2018

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