How to Use heckle in a Sentence

heckle

verb

• The players were being heckled by the fans.
• People in the crowd were booing and heckling as she tried to speak.
• Several protesters were heckling the speaker at the rally.
• Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues’’ as fans of his folk style booed and heckled.
  — Hillel Italie, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2019
• The people who had to wait when someone blocked the way with a truck and got out to heckle.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2021
• Like start heckling the crowd back, Acosta, like, get ...
  — Fox News, 5 Aug. 2018
• They shouldn't be heckled for wearing short trunks or even a Speedo.
  — Liza Corsillo, GQ, 2 July 2018
• No one makes fun of anyone, no one is rude or heckling.
  — Leyla Shokoohe, The Enquirer, 8 June 2023
• Even at Cellar Door, they’ve been heckled and called groomers.
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• This will be a State of the Union speech worth watching — even if the president isn’t lucky enough to get heckled again.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
• Smith said a San Clemente student then came up and started heckling them too.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2019
• The video also made its way to YouTube, where the community has been heckling the would-be vandals.
  — Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 15 Jan. 2020
• Still, his friends and family members are no strangers to being heckled on the street.
  — Alison Kuznitz, courant.com, 9 July 2018
• Maybe the problem is that our presidents don't get heckled enough.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 10 Feb. 2023
• Bust out your best moonwalk-in-bowling-shoes dance moves, drink some watery beer, and heckle your date.
  — Alyssa Girdwain, Women's Health, 17 Mar. 2023
• For 650 years, crowds swarmed Oxford Street to heckle convicts being carted from the prison at one end to the gallows at the other.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2022
• Netanyahu has been heckled by reservists and vilified in the press.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• Slowly, she’s joined by the rest of her civil rights group as the other patrons inside heckle them with racist slurs.
  — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• In the video, Newton - the Heisman Trophy winner from Auburn - appears to heckle a teenage fan with a rude gesture.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 26 July 2023
• During the game, Doncic took offense to a fan in a Devin Booker jersey who heckled the Dallas star.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2024
• Jones was among them, and said that white supremacists came out to heckle the protesters.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Demi heckles them by throwing a full turkey leg onto the stage.
  — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 21 Jan. 2019
• Late last month, the mayor was heckled by local residents at an event.
  — Fox News, 3 July 2019
• His aides have had to remind him not to roll his eyes at his opponents during debates, and not to fight back when he’s heckled at an event.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2020
• At the end, Robin Williams heckled Belzer from the crowd, before going onstage and improvising a series of scenes to close out the night.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• Joshua didn’t stop singing, but looked up from the piano with a concerned, disapproving look on his face and shook his head at the fan who started heckling her.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 15 Mar. 2023
• Some protesters heckled the judge and peppered him with questions and comments.
  — Tirien Steinbach, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
• Leaving Al Aqsa, a group of yeshiva students spotted my Islamic prayer rug and hassled and heckled me all the way to the hotel.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2023
• And yet Roberts’s main concern is not with legitimizing the Supreme Court but with the people heckling justices for not doing so.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 24 May 2023
• On March 30, during a game against the Athletics in Oakland, Rendon was seen on video grabbing a fan's shirt, who was heckling him throughout the game.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 3 June 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024