heckle
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“Tiger With Cubs” depicts a tigress nursing her young under pine trees as magpies heckle them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
Passersby who witnessed this altercation began to heckle the police, demanding they take the handcuffs off Smith.
From Salon ● May 13, 2025
Last year, Dean found himself the victim of what he has described as "the most brutal heckle ever".
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
Now Israel's minister for police, Itamar Ben-Gvir was on hand to keep order as some 30,000 people took part in the annual event that he used to heckle as an "abomination".
From Reuters ● Jun. 1, 2023
At this point, Perch started to heckle me.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
“Your job as a bench warmer is to come up with the heckles against the other team. I took pride in writing insults to hurl at other 15-year-olds,” Wood recalled in a recent Zoom interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2024
His comments were met with mixture of heckles and cheers,
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2024
Earlier, when Alabama heard some inappropriate heckles from the Missouri student section — this happened a week after Miles’s arrest — Oats tried to scold the wrong people.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2023
The reason, he said, is that he would expect an order from a group that cheers for the visitor and heckles the home team would be rejected.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
When splintered, there is inner vortex which spirals and heckles mercilessly, relentlessly.
From Rhyme and Reason; a Compilation of Verses, Rhymes and Senses by Dom
The price includes getting heckled by other boaters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
He once heckled Anne Sexton at a poetry reading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was heckled at a World War II memorial event by protesters angry about Tokyo's further shift away from its decades-long pacifist stance, television footage showed.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
A woman heckled the mayor just as he was about to speak and accused city leadership of ignoring concerns of Muslim and Palestinian communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Then a man heckled something but was immediately shouted down.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
The heckling spurred Burnham on to raise the issue in cabinet, contributing to the launch of a second inquiry into the disaster.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
I was not heckling or mocking, but what followed was immediate — and instructive.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025
One federal agent saw the patrollers, turned up his music, and began heckling the group as he rode in.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025
Instead, they amped up the heckling in a way that may have crossed the line of accepted decorum, even at an event known for being the most raucous party in golf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2025
"Don't listen to him. He's just heckling you."
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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