hecklers

Example Sentences

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Previously, Bovino and his crew had been refused service at a local Speedway gas station, and swarmed by hecklers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Anytime there were hecklers or someone was drunk and rowdy, instead of telling them to leave, I would have to go get someone else to tell them to leave.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

Peter Kay has said he had "no choice" but to ask security to eject two hecklers at his show on Saturday because their "repeated disruptions" made it "impossible to continue".

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2025

Handling hecklers lobbing insults while cloaked in darkness is an artform.

From Salon • May 24, 2024

For the rest of the morning as I walked the halls, amid my hecklers, I couldn’t stop thinking about what it would be like to feel as though I were in charge of myself.

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