hoot
verb (used without object)
to cry out or shout, especially in disapproval or derision.
is hooting
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present progressiveof hoot (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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As I write, the winter owl is hooting; the grass is numb and cold.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pearly and grey the Christmas gloaming deepens, a few stars peep frostily out, and in the gloom of the fir-woods an owl is hooting melodiously.
From In the Whirl of the Rising by Bertram Mitford
On some near tree an owl is hooting, with a voice that is strangely and pitifully human.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various
The owl is hooting in yon bush; How yonder oak-tree’s blasted arms Upon me seem to frown!
From Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North by Ida Pfeiffer
The owl is hooting to the night, The cooter crawling o'er the bank, And in that pond the flashing light Tells where the alligator sank.
From Eighth Reader by James Baldwin
