How to Use shout down in a Sentence

shout down

verb
  • Yes, a shouting down includes a disrupter using their speech.
    — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Or shouted down a guest speaker with different opinions while clad in Crocs and a hoodie?
    — Zach Przystup, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2026
  • His protest lasted just a few seconds until he was shouted down by pro-regime legislators.
    — John Otis, NPR, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The man was blocked by another man and forced to back up while being shouted down by apologetic patrons of the restaurant, the video shows.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 12 Nov. 2025
  • At several times, the crowd turned rowdy and shouted down the hearing examiner.
    — Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Later in the episode, Frank shows up at the church to shout down Mark for having the nerve to contact Donald directly.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Several members scoffed at the approval and shouted down the commissioners.
    — Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 30 Aug. 2025
  • At times, people in the crowd stood up to clap for medalists — and got quickly shouted down by the journalists wielding telephoto lenses behind them.
    — Pien Huang, NPR, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Strong words, but Crow's was just one voice among a broad, bipartisan chorus that shouted down what became of Freedom 250.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026
  • And 72%, a supermajority, believe that shouting down speakers so they can’t be heard is OK.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Habermas makes little allowance for humans’ tendency to shout down one another, for men’s tendency to shout down women, for lies and manipulations, for the twisting of reason into its opposite.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • The candidate looks appropriately humiliated to be shouted down by a group of peaceful citizens voicing reasonable opposition, but the stakes are low.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Studies repeatedly showed that faculty and leadership had moved far to the left politically, and video evidence revealed countless examples of conservative speakers being shouted down on campus.
    — Andy Smarick, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Del Rio was using a microphone and amplification device — in violation of a city ordinance — to shout down those at the vigil and was asked to leave multiple times, according to a police report provided to Fox News Digital.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Compared with all this, a bunch of college students shouting down the conservative political scientist Charles Murray—an incident at Middlebury College now immortalized through endless retelling—is small potatoes.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The Minnesota church where anti-ICE agitators disrupted a Sunday service and shouted down parishioners called on leaders to protect places of worship while criticizing the behavior of those involved during the chaotic disruption.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Rather than being universally shouted down when those anti-Israel sentiments quickly morphed into anti-Jewish vitriol, they were tolerated, ignored and even celebrated on college campuses, in social media chatrooms and in the halls of Congress.
    — Nolan Finley, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) reports that student support for disruptive protest tactics — shouting down speakers, blocking access to events, even violence — has reached record levels.
    — Jason Jewell, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
  • In a press release, JewBelong also cited KU for an incident in February 2024 when Israeli resident and businessman Gal Cohen‑Solal was shouted down by protesters chanting anti‑Israel slogans during an event at the KU student union.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 22 Aug. 2025

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