But neither snubs nor setbacks, nor sneers nor jeers could turn her from the path she had elected to tread.
Despite certain jeers from some of the reviewers, the lectures continued to attract the public.
At last Mackintosh released the delinquent, and the poor man slunk away amid jeers and laughter.
Dacotah and Mighty Hand become things for jeers and laughter in the women's tents!
Perhaps I shall elude those jeers which creep Into my very brain, and shut these scorched Eyelids and keep those mocking faces out.
Soon the jeers grew: 'Cold hater of his kind, A sea-cave suits him, not the vulgar hearth!
Every point against the Ruef side was received by these toughs withjeers and hootings.
Up from the throats of the dense throng in front of the battalion went a chorus of jeers and laughter.
When he next appeared on a race-course the very men who had cheered him to the echo at Ascot greeted him with jeers and angry shouts at Epsom.
Well, these mortal insults, these jeers on the part of some one unknown, end at last in an enjoyment which sometimes reaches the highest degree of voluptuousness.
It was a failure, and I gained nothing but jeers and gibes.
The captain (for so was Ethelston called on board) always treated Cupid kindly, and never allowed him to be made the subject of those jeers and insults to which free negroes in the States are usually exposed.
In spite of the jeers of his friends among the Koreish, he had attended their meetings regularly.
Shouts of triumph and jeers of derision arose from the city walls.
Accompanied by her husband, this ceremony ever drew upon the newly married couple a profusion of jeers and ribald jests from which they were powerless to protect themselves.
She dreaded the jeers and jests to which the story would subject her, and everything was to be feared from Mr. Buck's retaliation should he learn that he had been tricked.
We could toss back the jeers Our rivals had launched at our city for years.
Do you think you can stand the jokes and jeers and vulgar gaze of such a crowd as you must necessarily meet in a criminal court-room?
Then I had to kiss both of Gladys's elbows to make them well, and finally I had to stand a fusillade of chaff and jeers from the Philosophers, which made life a heavier burden that it was already.
I set down to envy or ignorance the jeers of the village youths who encountered me on my way home.
But when she had gone a few paces up the road someone shouted something after her, and there was a noise of laughter and then of the shuffling of many feet behind her, and jeers and cat-calls and the beating of the tin can.
He insults the priestly rank, he jeers at miracles, he has no belief in gods.
The whole court of his holiness jeers at him because of practices, of which I know nothing, though I see the holy man almost daily.
Her body was recovered, and the head cut off and stuck upon a pole at Taunton, amid the jeers of the whites and the tears of the captive Indians.
He resided in Danbury when the village was burned, 1818 and remained, amid the jeers of Tories and the insults of the invaders, to protect an aged and sick parent.
For a moment it seemed to him that he felt the dark waters rise in his soul, heard the jeers of the gods at the vanity of mortal will.
As for Bianca, her body was hurried away and flung into the common vault of San Lorenzo, with the light of two yellow wax torches to bear it company, and the jibes and jeers of Florence for its only requiem.
The amorous Pixie retreated, more rapidly than he had advanced, amidst the jeers and laughter of the crowd beneath.
This miserable, sneaking Pixie was lashed to a mast of his own ship, and as the Kind towed the Tattle through the Brownie fleet he was greeted everywhere with groans and jeers by the true-hearted sailors.
He tried in vain to thrust out of his mind the astonished consternation of his classmates, the sneers of the marines and the jeers of the civilians there at the gate, who had seen his disgrace.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jeers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
