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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

Holding up homemade cards as 'Silent Night' played in the background - emulating a scene from the film 'Love Actually' - Hearn expertly avoided being interrupted, despite Eubank Jr's attempts to heckle him.

From BBC ● Nov. 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

Even back in 2022, when Boebert and Greene presented as a Karen power duo out to heckle President Joe Biden, I was skeptical that their alliance would last long.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2023

Stanton could think on her feet, and she refused to be intimidated by those who dared to heckle her as she spoke.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

“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

Ms Bennett had previously avoided court - instead trying to enter a guilty plea by email, which the magistrate rejected - and disguised herself with a scarf as she arrived to heckles on Wednesday.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2023

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

Still, there would have been time between heckles for him to step quietly back from us, Introvert the Maintainer and ... well, that was nine-tenths of the problem.

From The Big Time by Fritz Leiber

After getting heckled outside by protesters, Xi slipped inside the White House for a state dinner where some 30 to 40 guests asked for photographs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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

Sure, we’d been heckled a few times, but once that paper goes to print, there’s no turning back.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

And while his teammates could be distracted by raucous crowds and heckling fans, Pride heard nothing but silence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

Unlike basketball, football, soccer, there’s not supposed to be any shouting, chattering, or heckling.

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes