How to Use heckler in a Sentence

heckler

noun

• One of the wrestlers shushed a heckler in the front row.
  — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 24 May 2021
• The heckler was tossed out of the club, but the man who was seated next to her threw a beer can at Elias.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 15 Oct. 2022
• Alas, his wry metaphor was lost on the oblivious heckler in the front-row.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
• Look quick for a cameo from the late great Jimmy Buffett as a heckler!
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 13 Sep. 2023
• Wendell Ford, challenging a heckler to join him on the stage.
  — Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 9 Aug. 2021
• Obama replied, as the crowd erupted into loud boos in an attempt to drown out the heckler.
  — Isaac Stanley-Becker, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
• The small group of students had several hecklers flip them off or yell at them.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
• People are going to [mimics a crowd of hecklers], man, that’s cool.
  — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2024
• There was a similar heckler at Butler, and, of course, the fan leaning over the railing at Creighton.
  — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2024
• In her 11 years of doing standup, this was by far the worst heckler Ariel Elias had ever encountered.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 11 Oct. 2022
• Humphries said the heckler, though annoying, wasn’t very good at heckling.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
• Adele tells a homophobic heckler to ‘shut up’ on first day of Pride Month in Las Vegas.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
• The crowds themselves have been peaceful though there usually has been at least one heckler who has to be removed by the police.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
• Biden was also met with a heckler toward the start of the speech, who was calling for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group.
  — Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 9 Nov. 2023
• The heckler was a band member for the electronic musician known as Bonobo, who’d played the hall earlier that evening.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Dec. 2022
• His set grew unpredictable at times, with Chappelle shouting back at hecklers who had beef with the comic.
  — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2024
• O’Brien had to apologize after the 2019 season when video emerged of him cursing out a heckler during halftime of a home loss to the Broncos.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2023
• The heckler was hollering about the number of coronavirus deaths.
  — Lisa J. Huriash, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2020
• Some transitions felt a bit abrupt, but the crowd near the front of stage played along—a heckler who mocked Ocean’s stutter during a brief speech was quickly hushed by neighbors.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2023
• At another point, a heckler from the Republican side of the chamber yelled at Biden that the nation’s fentanyl deaths were his fault.
  — Justin Sink, Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2023
• Yale Law School students deployed the hecklers’ veto a year earlier, in March 2022.
  — Justin Vallejo, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2023
• Last week a video of Beto cursing at a heckler at one of his events drew national attention.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2022
• The man was hit by at least one other heckler just before Elder was escorted into a white SUV.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• Some versions of the legend say the Renaissance master caricatured the face of a heckler.
  — Kelly Crow, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2020
• The heckler yelled to free Palestine during Seinfeld’s set.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 17 June 2024
• Watch Seinfeld’s incident with the heckler in Australia in the post below.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 17 June 2024
• The hecklers — four in total — were removed from the crowd during Warren’s speech as supporters cheered the senator on.
  — Samantha J. Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• With that, columns of Wide Awakes launched into the motley hecklers, swinging their torch staffs and clearing the square of some 200 troublemakers.
  — Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
• Ficker, who was once a legendary sports heckler, also works in real estate.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2022
• At one point, Alito even took the side of a hypothetical heckler who starts screaming in the middle of a Supreme Court argument and is later charged with obstructing the proceeding.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 21 May 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024