hooted

Definition of hootednext
past tense of hoot

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • The officers shouted overlapping commands, telling LaMorie to stop and drop the knife before firing seconds later.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
  • King shouted, his voice echoing.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The Nuggets ended the game on a 21-5 run and a catharsis, as Jamal Murray nailed a dagger 3-pointer and played to the crowd that had jeered his team not long ago.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
  • About 100 feet from the sheriff’s immaculate enclave, jailers who worked for Smith jeered as Mitchell shivered in his own waste, court records show.
    USA Today, USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • It was ridiculed as the Broncos sat pretty in free agency and signed back most of the pieces of their 2025 corps to short-term deals.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The move was ridiculed by rival Anthropic, which made OpenAI’s ad push the focus of its first Super Bowl campaign.
    Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • My husband heard the commotion and hollered at me for yelling at his sister.
    Jeanne Phillips, Dallas Morning News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Dropkin, of Massachusetts, and Thiesse, of Minnesota, whooped and hollered after edging the hosts, hugging tightly.
    CBS News, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The league didn’t announce why it was rescinded, but Doncic said Bitadze insulted his family in Serbian — and Bitadze denied it.
    ABC News, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • With it, everyone wins and no one gets hurt or insulted.
    Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Much like the snowstorm outside Williams Arena, the winds howled in another direction with Hopkins getting to the hoop and scoring 17 of the final 20 points for a 32-28 lead at the break.
    Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Fans at my screening howled as ex-con maid Sydney Sweeney and desperate housewife Amanda Seyfried waged their hysterical suburban war.
    Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • By this token, the politician who steals scraps of another’s rhetoric (even if the actual stealing is performed by speechwriters) is derided as if he had been found watching pornography.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The number was almost universally derided at the time and some say the San Francisco aesthetic of the show was misunderstood.
    Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Standing there as the fire roared on and the crowd around her grew, the strong community support was already apparent.
    Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The Dodger Stadium crowd roared at the sound of contact, cheers growing louder as Kyle Tucker’s single made it through the right side of the field and Alex Freeland trotted home to finally break a persistent tie.
    Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2026
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“Hooted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hooted. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.

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