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Example sentences for "hooted"

Lexicographically close words:
hoosh; hoosie; hoost; hoot; hootch; hooter; hooting; hootings; hoots; hooves
  1. He took another priest with him, and both were hooted by the boys.

  2. It is, I think, better to be hooted than to be quartered with a battle-axe.

  3. Hastily I made up my mind to decline the combat, even if I were hooted out of Kukuanaland as a consequence.

  4. The owls in the tower hooted more than ever.

  5. In the tower hooted the owls, and the death-bird screamed.

  6. Never again would she stroll beneath the tall trees in the summer dusk, while the owls hooted eerily and the nightingale murmured luscious love-songs to the dreaming roses.

  7. Here on summer evenings the nightingales sang to the roses for which the gardens were famous; and for centuries the big white owls had hooted from their nests in the tree-tops, or flown, like pale ghosts, across the dusky paths.

  8. There is a mystery about this; for, when a member proposed to give the Legislature express authority to exclude slavery, it was hooted down by the friends of the bill.

  9. Then an owl hooted loudly from the edge of the bush.

  10. She stopped and hooted thrice in soft cadence.

  11. It sprawled, it overflowed its boundaries incessantly, it hooted and yelled and sang.

  12. When a narrow-headed individual remarked that he had heard that the widow was getting nothing out of it, but that Courtot and his crowd had cheated her, they hooted and jeered at him until he withdrew wondering at their insane attitude.

  13. It hooted irritably, furiously, as the car tore through the village.

  14. It hooted again, once, twice, placably, at the turning of the road, under Karva.

  15. Lord Beaconsfield skilfully played upon this feeling, and there ensued a condition of affairs in which Mr. Gladstone made triumphal progresses through the north of England, and was hooted weekly in the streets of London.

  16. A tramp steamer, outward bound for some distant port, hooted dismally as it swung down stream.

  17. Somewhere behind them a ferryboat hooted dismally and a tramp steamer, just swinging out of its wharf, answered.

  18. That she is living, Were it but told you, should be hooted at Like an old tale; but it appears she lives Though yet she speak not.

  19. I have always seen Mr. Jones hooted down by these worthies, and I never knew them give him a single fair hearing in my life.

  20. Many of the Members of the Honourable House were hooted and hustled as they passed into the doors; and Mr. Garrow, the then Attorney-General, had rather a narrow escape.

  21. Braid- Beard, those strangers, that came to Mondoldo prove isles afar, as a philosopher of old surmised, but was hooted at for his surmisings.

  22. They were "yellow" down to the very babies in arms; they hooted in shrill and childish derision whenever a carriage passed with blue favours, as some did, the occupants themselves looking blue in another sense.

  23. He was too shrewd not to see that all hope of that borough was over,--he would have been hooted in the streets and pelted from the hustings.

  24. As soon as we got outside, the mob which the uproar had attracted hooted me and followed me, and no doubt I should have been torn to pieces if I had not escaped into a church, which I left by another door a quarter of an hour later.

  25. Two owls, floating over the tree-tops, hooted sepulchrally but melodiously to each other.

  26. As he wrote, every now and then a steamboat hooted from the river, and the rain pattered upon his window.

  27. The mist lay heavy upon London, mid all that night the steamboats hooted as they passed from bridge to bridge.

  28. The Catholics hurried home pursued and hooted by straggling groups of rioters.

  29. A man belonging to the ultramontane party cannot walk the streets to-day without being hooted and insulted," said another.

  30. Owls, too, flopped their wings in my face and hooted at me, and fire blazed out and lit the place up, and brimstone smoke came nigh choking me.

  31. Then they all formed in line, and marched and hooted and yelled; and when the snakes joined the procession, the devils leaped on their backs and rode.

  32. Sometime that mystical procession must come to an end.

  33. Between Anthony Dexter and the lilac bush at the gate, there moved perpetually the black, veiled figure of Evelina Grey.

  34. The majority expressed a desire to see him hooted out of the town.

  35. The rector disliked the sight of a man who had imposed upon him; and all boys who could not afford to purchase, hooted "David Faux" as they passed his shop.

  36. I saw a tiny little geyser suck in its breath in this way, and instinct made me retire while it hooted after me.

  37. Owls came out and hooted at him, and animals ran about in the dark and made uncouth noises.

  38. The evening previous he tried to poison himself, but lived to be stoned and hooted by the populace on his way to the gallows.

  39. No serious outbreak occurred, though crowds thronged the streets, and hooted and hissed and groaned, and threw missiles at the military, and at the marshal and his assistants.

  40. Those that did were glad to explain 'twas on necessary and lawful Business, or they got hooted and sometimes pelted.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hooted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.