Example Sentences

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The key to trolling is jeering indifference: You win because you don’t care.

From Slate

There is jeering at the misfortunes of others.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Even to this day when I awake from some bad dream, it is a dream that I am wearing crazy breeches and all the world is jeering at me.

From The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it by Davis, James J. (James John)

Knudsen having finished his job, is jeering at Pickle, who had promised to be first.

From At Plattsburg by French, Allen

No one believes it, and everybody is jeering at Tychkov for having debased himself to interrogate a drink-maddened old beggar-woman.

From The Precipice by Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich