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Some blame the rising price of tickets, saying theatergoers feel entitled to misbehave in the same way sports fans feel the price of admission buys them the right to heckle players.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Passersby who witnessed this altercation began to heckle the police, demanding they take the handcuffs off Smith.

From Salon ● May 13, 2025

Arizona and Arizona State fans once used the term to heckle him, but the taunts had the opposite of their intended effect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025

"If someone heckles me, I can heckle them back... always politely though."

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2023

At this point, Perch started to heckle me.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

"Why should it? For doing my job?" she retorts, her heckles immediately raised at any suggestion of a conflict of interest.

From BBC ● May 30, 2025

“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

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

He heckles down the echoing curb, A step that neither hopes nor hates Ever disturb.

From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Meteyard, Thomas Buford

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

Elsewhere on Thursday, angry protesters jeered and heckled Sir Keir Starmer when he visited Golders Green to meet Jewish volunteer organisations and first responders on Thursday.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

During a press conference about the last-ditch rescue effort, veterinarian Janine Bahr‑van Gemmert was heckled by a man who burst through a security cordon.

From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026

Charles has been heckled in the street at recent public events, while Buckingham Palace has said the king has “profound concern” about the allegations against his brother.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

They’d heckled him at his daughter’s college, where he’d been invited to give a commencement address.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

In an age of seemingly nonstop spam, that act of rebellion can feel deeply satisfying, like heckling a telemarketer who interrupted dinner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

“These people are crazy, I’m telling you. We’re lucky we have a country with people like this,” he said, over audible heckling about the Epstein files.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026

One federal agent saw the patrollers, turned up his music, and began heckling the group as he rode in.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025

“I made Gabby lose by heckling her. And it made my parlay win,” he wrote on a post that included a screenshot of two bets on FanDuel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025

I turned my attention away from the woman heckling me as the soldiers paraded down the aisle with military precision.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals