peanut gallery

Example Sentences

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And, barring a stunning comeback, McIlroy will have the best possible response to the peanut gallery: for the second time in his career, he’ll have won the Ryder Cup on American turf.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 27, 2025

More peanut gallery antics from Cash followed, but I was loving it.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2023

"There are now endless opportunities for a peanut gallery to form. At the end of the day, is it better just to move on?"

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2022

His comment usually followed the announcement of a move to a new football team, ignoring any dissent from his noisy children in the peanut gallery.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2021

A nonrestrictive relative clause is set offby commas, dashes, or parentheses, and expresses a comment from the peanut gallery, as in The pair of shoes, which cost five thousand dollars, was hideous.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker