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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

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

Last year, Dean found himself the victim of what he has described as "the most brutal heckle ever".

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025

After the press conference ended, they continued to follow and heckle De Niro.

From Salon ● May 29, 2024

At this point, Perch started to heckle me.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Despite heckles from a small group of people near to Rowley who were calling for him to resign, the commissioner said the police is doing its best to protect the Jewish community.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

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

His speech was interrupted repeatedly by heckles and jeers from opposition leadership, who at times chanted “weak.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2022

A crowd has gathered to cheer the bullfighters, but when a particularly famous one passes by, a man heckles him, barking that he’s nothing compared with the matadors that the city of Córdoba has produced.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2022

A couthie wife an' cantie she has been; I maun gie o'er sic rants, an' that's be seen. never heckles me but for my guid; I sall gang sober hame—I will indeed.

From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Patrick Buchan

Noisy AfD lawmakers who often heckled Merz drew the ire of parliamentary speaker Julia Kloeckner.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 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

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

Since the fall, Charles has faced heckling about his brother during public appearances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 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

We haul it down the driveway and around the corner as the old man’s heckling laugh echoes behind us.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy