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Example sentences for "jeered"

Lexicographically close words:
jedoch; jeedge; jeep; jeeps; jeer; jeering; jeeringly; jeers; jeest; jeg
  1. Some guys are lucky, Steve," jeered Overstreet, taking his cue from the Ranger.

  2. You got more sense an' less grit than I figured you had," jeered Gurley.

  3. Then it grows helpless, its muscles relaxed, and it easily lends itself to be jeered at for its stupor.

  4. Driven out of the place, hooted and jeered by the mob, Dr.

  5. But at the critical moment the Game Cock mortally wounds himself with his own spurs, and is jeered and driven off the scene by the same mob that formerly cheered him on.

  6. As to Agatha, when I had a little jeered her, I gave her rich gifts and good lands, and freedom, to boot her for her many stripes.

  7. Redhead looked sheepishly on Ralph at that word, yet winked at him also, as if it pleased him to be jeered concerning his wooing; so that Ralph saw how the land lay, and that the guileful handmaid was not ill content with that big man.

  8. What a mine of wisdom you are," jeered Chaldea, nodding.

  9. Oh, my mother, there are liars about," jeered the gypsy sceptically.

  10. He jeered at the Liberal party--who had been exhorted by their Whips not to take too much part in the discussion--'for assisting in the capacity of mutes at the funeral obsequies of free speech.

  11. These men are always called barbarians by their contemporaries: they are jeered and hooted.

  12. It was a great festival, and as they jeered at Jesus they enjoyed themselves hugely.

  13. He has jeered at the Temple your father built," Caiaphas continued.

  14. And now he had to leave it and face his accusers, and be hectored and jeered at in the mockery they called "trials.

  15. What will I get here but to be laughed at and jeered at by a lot of people that are not fit to even look at me father.

  16. Accordingly, he was famously jeered and mocked at, and had to bear the jeering and mockery as best he could.

  17. As he rode soldiers jeered and prophesied a speedy death in a ditch, which made him feel ill at ease.

  18. It is said that Captain Bailey and his men on landing at the crowded pier were jostled and jeered at by angry bands of rowdies.

  19. The rest of him is in bed asleep," jeered Ned Rector, with such a funny grimace that the boys laughed.

  20. This isn't a baseball game, young fellow," jeered the foreman.

  21. That he and his grandmother were poor he knew, but he had never felt the effects of their poverty, save when Tom Tracy had jeered at him for it, and called him a pauper.

  22. I'd rather sweep the streets than be jeered at as I am.

  23. Mrs. Crawford asked a little angry and a good deal astonished; but Jerry only answered at first with her tears, as Harold jeered at her forlorn appearance and called her a picked chicken.

  24. Just as much as it's got to do with the grass of a duck in a forty-acre paddock," jeered Sandy.

  25. They also jeered uproariously when bombs fell a few yards wide and deluged them with water, and fought madly for any splinters which might fall on board.

  26. The woman mocked and jeered at him, while he made various excuses, but all the time he was observing how the land lay.

  27. Akaiyan solemnly swore that he had not injured her in any way, but Nopatsis only jeered at him, and rowed away.

  28. Rather a confession of weakness, my dear Superintendent," jeered the prisoner.

  29. I was wondering," jeered the prisoner, "how soon you were coming to that.

  30. You are a leopard, and a lamb, and a bantam cock all in one," I jeered at him.

  31. I could have jeered at the childishness of his open purpose.

  32. He was jeered at by the other boys on account of his foreign tongue.

  33. Yet it was she who, in her soul, jeered at the Church and at religion.

  34. You believe it all right," jeered the crook.

  35. His vanity was one of his outstanding qualities, and he did not want it widely known that the boob he had intended to trap had turned the tables on him, manhandled him, jeered at him, and locked him in a room with his three henchmen.

  36. Enoch chose a most circuitous route, and although his lordship was jeered at many times during the short journey, nothing occurred to cause delay.

  37. Then he swore, and tried to sleep again, but the Spectre jeered him.

  38. He must be all-fired off his guard," jeered Falstar, "when he talks order of any kind.


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