Example Sentences

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There’s something fundamentally wrong about when a group of men and women are jeering and shouting at busloads of kids.

From US News • Jul. 9, 2014

It's December, and the rain is pouring, and the holidays are nearing, and the Seahawks fans are jeering.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 16, 2010

In har'st, at the shearing, nae youths now are jeering, Bandsters are lyart, and runkled and gray; At fair or at preaching, nae wooing, nae fleeching— The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.

From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Palgrave, Francis Turner

People are jeering at the audacious claim for indemnity presented to the British Government when the enemy entered London, and are asking whether we will not now present a claim to Germany.

From The Invasion by Le Queux, William

In hairst, at the shearing, nae youths now are jeering,   Bandsters are lyart, and runkled, and gray: At fair or at preaching, nae wooing, nae fleeching—   The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir