CATCALL in a Sentence

Learn CATCALL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for CATCALL, such as:

1. There were crows and catcalls showered upon him when he retreated without the horse.
2. The catcalls and hisses and mocking cries ran in rude gusts round the hall from his scattered fellow students.
3. Every major league pitcher has off days during which he must learn to ignore any catcall and angry hiss from the crowd.

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 Meanings and Examples of CATCALL
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catcall
 n.  shout of disapproval; boo; shout or whistle expressing dislike, especially from crowd or audience
Classic Sentence:
1  There were crows and catcalls showered upon him when he retreated without the horse.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  With the passionate song of the bullets and the banshee shrieks of shells were mingled loud catcalls and bits of facetious advice concerning places of safety.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
3  The catcalls and hisses and mocking cries ran in rude gusts round the hall from his scattered fellow students.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence:
1  Every major league pitcher has off days during which he must learn to ignore any catcall and angry hiss from the crowd.