was jeering
- past progressive of jeer.
Example Sentences
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That afternoon, when Hillary arrived in Harlem to visit an after-school program, the crowd was jeering reporters, chanting, “Leave Bill alone!”
From Time ● Jan. 26, 2015
That afternoon, when Hillary arrived in Harlem to visit an after-school program, the crowd was jeering reporters, chanting, "Leave Bill alone!"
From Time Magazine Archive
I heard whistles & cheering, or maybe it was jeering, until it faded away into the distance.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
When I last heard his voice he was insisting upon seventy-five centimes, and the antiquary was jeering at him and asking a franc and a half.
From Don Orsino by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
An emigrant boy was jeering at his father.
From The Covered Wagon by Hough, Emerson
