Example Sentences

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Wagner is ready to take on the role of a villain at the Breslin Center, where fans will jeer and taunt him along with the rest of his teammates.

From Washington Times • Jan. 12, 2018

The antagonism industry will preview Gallas's return to Highbury & Islington in late November with bonfire imagery, but my guess is that Arsenal supporters will jeer only because their software tells them to.

From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2010

Will the time come when children will jeer at us as erring fools and insane dreamers, scared by what did not exist, and amused by empty juggling?

From King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

Oh, Hicks will be angry with me for telling; but he just won't tell about himself, after all his practice, because he fears the fellows will jeer.

From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by Elderdice, J. Raymond

Easy to know my friends will jeer and say I've sold out?

From The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays by Leonard, Sterling Andrus