hoot
verb (used without object)
to cry out or shout, especially in disapproval or derision.
has hooted
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present perfectof hoot (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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In other contexts, Mr. Avenatti has hooted at the claim that the Trump team was unaware of the payoffs, asking rhetorically how often attorneys pay the expenses of their clients.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2018
That’s the third time it has hooted this last five minutes.
From The New Forest Spy by W.D.E. Evans
From that day the north wind has sobbed, and the owl has hooted, and the lost traveller by night knows not that it is the blood of the she-wolf bemoaning her crime.
From The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian by Ralph Browning Fiske
I interrupted Madame Blavatsky to say, “Your clock has hooted me.”
From The Trembling of the Veil by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
