How to Use shout down in a Sentence

shout down

phrasal verb

• There were some gluttons for punishment, but most of the people who couldn’t hang were shouted down.
  — Erin Gloria Ryan, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
• If everyone talks at once, or if speakers are shouted down, no one is heard.
  — Judith Martin, oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2023
• Two demonstrators were escorted out of the bar for trying to shout down Haley during the remarks.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2024
• During the special session, Epps sat in the House gallery with pro-Palestinian protestors and shouted down at her colleagues below.
  — Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2024
• The experience of being shouted down that day merely confirmed how much of an alien the religious leader already was.
  — Samuel G. Freedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2023
• Anger has spilled over as ministers have been shouted down during rare public appearances.
  — Roger Cohen Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• Fierce protests became common, with crowds clogging the pier and Pacific Coast Highway to shout down coronavirus precautions or cheer Trump.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2024
• During the anti-pension-reform marches last spring, its deputies became well known for shouting down Macron’s ministers.
  — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• Many people don’t like it when speakers are shouted down on college campuses or when peaceful street demonstrators are jailed or battered by law enforcement.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
• Students shout down professors and guest speakers; social-media mobs hound people for errors of opinion; human-rights activists tear down flyers of children and babies held hostage.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• But the challenge soon became audiences shouting down members or angry commenters harassing them.
  — Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2023
• The fan bases also aligned themselves for this, warming up their voices and marking their calendars for another shot at shouting down their great geographic annoyances.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• Democrat gets shouted down after accusing parents of crime victims of showboating….
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 18 Apr. 2023
• The efforts are intended as a counterweight to the divisiveness and hostility common on social media, in politics, and, at times, at colleges where students have shouted down speakers or tried to keep them off campus entirely.
  — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• As became obvious with the anti-vaccine movement, simply shouting down dissident voices, without trying to find some sort of epistemological common ground, is futile.
  — Douglas Girardot, Washington Post, 2 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 Aug 2024