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• The plot of the film was so derisive that the audience began to jeer.From the entry derisive
• The jeers rained down on me throughout my middle school years.From the entry rain down
• His appearance was greeted with an outcry of jeering.From the entry outcry
• The crowd's laughter and jeers embarrassed him.From the entry embarrass
• By the time he made a game-saving catch, even the cheers sounded like jeers to Terrible-Tempered Ted.1956 August 20, “Scoreboard”, in Time. From the entry do a slow burn
• Some brought out pannikins of water to the fleeing Jews; others laughed and jeered.1950, Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by A.H. Gross, The Family Moskat, New York: Knopf, Part V, Chapter 1, p. 258. From the entry pannikin
• And they surged round Aslan jeering at him, saying things like "Puss, Puss!1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. From the entry pussums
• But I have no inclination left to be a reginacide or even a jeering republican.1950, Geoffrey Grigson, The Crest on the Silver: An Autobiography, London: Cresset Press, page 167. From the entry reginacide
• "You've gone so plum daffy you are forgetting your dinner," jeered her mother.1909, Gene Stratton-Porter, chapter I, in A Girl of the Limberlost. From the entry daffy
• The away end was duly packed out and ringed, sternly, by a gaggle of widely jeered Metropolitan police.2025 March 1, Barney Ronay, “Crystal Palace through after Millwall keeper’s red for head-high tackle on Mateta”, in The Guardian. From the entry gaggle
• At the same time, they jeered the heels, the masked men, the arrogant, bearded Russians and Germans, and the treacherous Japanese.2007, Gary Howard, “Linking the East and the North”, in The Rassler from Renfrew: The History of Northland Wrestling Enterprises…. From the entry baby face
• They are always despoiling or marring public or private property or making people the butt of coarse jokes and jeers.1913 October, [David] Paul Gooding, “Dunedin—Miscellaneous Ben Rudd and Flagstaff Hill—Roomy Invercargill—State Oysters—Romantic Stewart…. From the entry larrikin
• And, contradiction, like a discord breaking on the ear, Wilt intertrude its hateful presence, hoot, deny and jeer.1912, Seymour Supercern, Truth Will Out: An Emergence from Chaos and Subterfuge Into Light and Reality. From the entry intertrude
• Nevertheless there is a certain handicap to the child who has been snubbed, mocked, jeered, wet blanketed and undervalued.1911, American Motherhood - Volumes 32-33, page 311. From the entry wet blanket
• Boring.” (crowd jeering) “Give me my glasses back.” “I'm gonna give your glasses to your master.” “Lot of jawboning going on.” “Okay?2022 July 26, William Meny & Paul Simms, “The Night Market” (16:56 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 4…. From the entry jawbone
• "There's a door hidden in that knotty pine wall over there that leads to his red room of pain and submission,” she jeered.2014, Kris Calvert, Sex, Lies & Lipstick. From the entry red room
• When they started jeering at him again, it was not so much at his northernsouthern claims, but at his supposed Christo-Muslim identity.2010, Uwem Akpan, Say You're One of Them. From the entry Christo-Muslim
• She is still spinning, and the Minion is starting to look tuckered, his stomps not so stompy anymore, and his jeers turned to huffy puffs.2006 July, Ysabeau S. Wilce, “The Lineaments of Gratified Desire”, in Gordon Van Gelder, editor, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science…. From the entry stompy
• Jeers and hisses fill the room.2001 August 27, Lin Alder, “Utah town goes ‘U.N. free’”, in High Country News, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2024. From the entry Duane
• Mandelson said he would create a project deserving cheers, not jeers, and promptly changed the sinister-sounding name of the publicly owned managing company, Millennium Central.1997 July 28, Warren Hoge, “Where Time Begins, a Millennium Pleasure Dome”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 May 2011. From the entry quick on the draw
• At other times the crowd below behaves more outrageously: The bystanders engage in "suicide baiting." They jeer and dare away at the wretch.1994, Dean Keith Simonton, Greatness. From the entry suicide baiting
• The Byzantines, wrote Robert of Clari, hooted and jeered from the battlements, "and let down their clouts and showed them their backsides."1980, Colin Thubron, Seafarers: The Venetians, page 33. From the entry clout
• In my bairnhood I would often linger in the glens where they dwelt, to jeer at them.” “Truly, yours was a wild boyhood, Olvir.1905, Robert Ames Bennet, For the White Christ. From the entry bairnhood
• The decision drew jeers from "DeFlockers," who'd rallied outside City Hall ahead of the 6 p.m. council meeting and stayed well after midnight to hear the council's decision.2026 July 23, Sara Cardine, “Costa Mesa to keep Flock cameras, renegoiate city's contract”, in Daily Pilot, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los…. From the entry deflocker
• Objective truth simply becomes a thing to jeer at, because obviously there's no such thing as objectivity—unless of course you're politically okay, in which case you can be objective.2002 October, Christopher Hitchens, “The Power of Facing”, in The Atlantic. From the entry correctness
• The faithful cheered loudly for their beloved Bums; they jeered loudly at the others teams, especially if they were the hated "Jints" from the Polo Grounds.2000, G. Richard McKelvey, The MacPhails: Baseball's First Family of the Front Office, page 38. From the entry bums
• As the gladiatresses slipped back through the whistling and jeering throng, this reporter followed, eager to learn something about how a lady rassler decides to become a lady rassler.1949 August 28, Roy Thompson, “Rassler Says ‘a Woman Should Know How to Protect Herself’”, in Winston-Salem Journal, 46th year, number 35…. From the entry gladiatress
• The widely predicted jeering of Aiden McGeady from the Tartan Army briefly turned to cheers when he was next to see a yellow card for a poor challenge on Fletcher.2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman. From the entry Tartan Army

Meaning of jeer

1. noun A mocking remark or reflection.
2. verb To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.
3. verb To mock; treat with mockery; to taunt.

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Questions about jeer in a sentence

How do you use jeer in a sentence?

Jeer is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The plot of the film was so derisive that the audience began to jeer.”

What is a short sentence with jeer?

“Jeers and hisses fill the room.”

What does jeer mean?

Jeer means a mocking remark or reflection.