How to Use hoot in a Sentence

hoot

1 of 2 verb

• I hooted at the car in front of me.
• We could hear an owl hooting in the woods.
• The crowd booed and hooted when it was announced that the show was canceled.
• The speaker was hooted off the platform by a small group of protesters.
• The crowd hooted its disapproval.
• Now the teens hoot in the night somewhere past the spruce, down in the pool house.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• Soon he was rushed onto the stage, and the crowd hooted and clapped.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
• People will want to see those on the screen together and hoot and holler.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2021
• People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things.
  — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 5 Oct. 2021
• For two hours, the Spartans’ bench players hoot and holler and cheer on their teammates.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. 2020
• So, pull your boots on and get ready to hoot and holler while cowboys and cowgirls take off on their best rides.
  — Anna Mahan, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2023
• The rest of the crew would be down in the bar, hooting it up and having long, crazy dinners and drinking into the night.
  — The Mercury News, 23 May 2017
• Which means, at least for now, that Flaco will continue to hoot around for all to see.
  — Curbed, 21 Feb. 2023
• Some bang on their pots, some clap, while others hoot loudly.
  — Sophie Hayssen, refinery29.com, 8 May 2020
• This is the moment when most visitors—myself among them—like to hoot and holler and wave their arms out the sunroof.
  — Charles Graeber, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2021
• Every dance performance was met by loud cheers and hooting from the crowd.
  — Jeong Park, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• A few feet away, sitting on a set of bleachers under the basket, Miles Bridges hooted and hollered.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2018
• The city needed something different, somewhere safe for Louisianans to sip their daiquiris and hoot and holler in peace.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
• That leaves Keaton to hoot and flail and fall into swimming pools for the next 80 minutes, and possibly find true love.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2022
• Lots of things fell from the Sellwood Bridge: shopping carts, bottles tossed by hooting teenagers.
  — Nancy Rommelmann, Good Housekeeping, 29 June 2018
• He then hooted as Cuyahoga County sheriff’s deputies led him out of the courtroom and back to jail.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2019
• The athletes assembled under the tent and laughed and hooted along as a procession of them stood to toast and roast Anker.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
• Gathered in a conference room, the buyers hoot and holler as Crown signs the paperwork.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2020
• There was no end of hugging and screaming and hooting and hollering.
  — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2023
• Get Away from Roads Everybody and their brother can drive country roads, throw open the truck door, owl hoot, and then keep driving.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 18 Apr. 2023
• New York night owls have hooted for years that the wildest, weirdest after-dark scenes have flourished somewhere else.
  — Billy Gray, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2017
• Flaco had been heard hooting back, multiple times, to the recorded voice.
  — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
• Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas, who hooted and clattered through bayou rockers and two-steps.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
• This creative owl will give your visitors something to hoot about!
  — Rebecca Shinners, Country Living, 7 Sep. 2022
• So of course all 300 of these middle-aged women are hooting and hollering and carrying on.
  — Christian D'andrea, The Enquirer, 17 Jan. 2024

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hoot

2 of 2 noun

• The announcement was met with hoots of derision.
• The names of food items on the kids' menu at Tom Brown’s Restaurant are a hoot.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 28 Oct. 2020
• And since then, she’s been a joy to watch grow, and also a hoot.
  — Essence, 8 Nov. 2021
• The third was a real hoot with the comeback and Hawks got it back but.
  — Dylan Bumbarger, OregonLive.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Each is a hoot to drive, but which one is the better starter sports car?
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 21 July 2022
• Jeanne Moos has a story that’s a hoot for all wildlife lovers.
  — CNN, 6 Jan. 2023
• This is the first time an egg-laying snake has been shown to give a hoot about its young.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 Mar. 2018
• Helen and Rex erupted in a hoot of laughter that sent them to the floor.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• Staff are a hoot and will teach you a bit of Creole. Doubles from $195.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2019
• At the very least, this ammo is a hoot to shoot on the range thanks to its mild recoil and low noise.
  — Jeff Johnston, Field & Stream, 8 Oct. 2019
• Blood dripped from the left side of his face, and Nolan Arenado didn’t give a hoot.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2021
• The hulking Cena is a hoot, with the best lines and the drollest delivery.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2021
• And the ad hoc dancing outside the tiny Music Den stage was a hoot.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• An outdoor camping trip 20 feet from the back door can be a hoot for kids and adults.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
• And while some people do give a hoot, litter is still easy to find.
  — Jeff Kart, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2021
• The good news is that the whole kit and kaboodle are a hoot to consider.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2022
• Car horns, air horns, pots and pans, and hoots and shouts make a two-minute symphony.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
• The punny pans were a hoot, but the menace of Minions needs to be addressed.
  — Vulture, 24 June 2022
• The hoots when the Giants drafted Jones sixth overall still hum in the inner ears.
  — Sally Jenkins, courant.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• And Ava Briglia – also one of the kids – is a hoot as Summer, the band’s brassy manager.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Thank goodness, let’s get rid of an owner that doesn’t give a hoot about the women.
  — Nina Mandell, For The Win, 30 Mar. 2018
• The more shocking revelation is that the show is a bona fide hoot.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
• Richard Kind is a hoot and a half in this May 3 interview with Seth Meyers.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 May 2021
• That the object of their curiosity is a Chevy is a hoot.
  — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2020
• Brown's a hoot but Hall, as the emotional center, is what makes this satire sing.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022
• No Way Home hits its hoot-and-holler beats about as skillfully as Endgame did.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 14 Dec. 2021
• The red car was a hoot; the blue car was a total handful at anything like full power.
  — Michael Teo Van Runkle, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
• Or, scrolling through social media and getting a good hoot from a photo of the big guy.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 27 Mar. 2021
• The ferry rides there and back from Lower Manhattan are a hoot to boot.
  — Cnt Editors, CNT, 9 July 2017
• His anecdotes about Bubbles, Jackson’s famous chimp, his bird, and his snake are a hoot.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 29 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024