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
After the press conference ended, they continued to follow and heckle De Niro.
From Salon ● May 29, 2024
"If someone heckles me, I can heckle them back... always politely though."
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2023
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
I used to heckle her about the help problem, but I learned that was not necessarily wise.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
“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
His speech was interrupted repeatedly by heckles and jeers from opposition leadership, who at times chanted “weak.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
However, she has had heckles from people who felt they shouldn't be lectured on their evening out.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2022
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
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
Noisy AfD lawmakers who often heckled Merz drew the ire of parliamentary speaker Julia Kloeckner.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
The MP "heckled as he returned after his by-election" in the seat of Clacton, according to the paper.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 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 some random scythe in the audience heckled.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
Within minutes of the young man in Kasenyi sending out his note, a crowd had gathered around the four volunteers, heckling them and shouting insults.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 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
He even managed to get a rise out of mild-mannered Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone, who recently kicked him out of the chamber for heckling.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025
“We got a lot to talk about and not much time, as usual, so gather round and keep the heckling to a minimum.”
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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