howl down

British  

verb

1. (tr, adverb) to prevent (a speaker) from being heard by shouting disapprovingly

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Example Sentences

Whether Crosbie should eventually become her own son-in-law or not it came to her naturally, as a part of her duty in life, to howl down the stumps of that young lady at Allington.

From The Small House at Allington by Trollope, Anthony

"I perceive you have a fine mind," said the Kettle; "only we are not much used to considering the winds in a poetical light, especially when they howl down the chimney winter nights."

From The Cricket's Friends Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan by Johnson, Virginia W.

Vainly landlords and farmers breathe forth fire and slaughter At Free Trade—that Circe on whom they've no mercy,—and howl down the speeches of those she's enchanted.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 17, 1892 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

I might as well have tried to howl down the hurricane in its fiercest mood.

From Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor by Webb, Archibald

Winter is upon us; the biting winds rattle our window-shutters and howl down our chimneys.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various