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Hooting | Hoot | Hooter | Hooters | Hoots | Hooted

Hooting meaning

present participle and gerund of hoot

Using Hooting

  • The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of hoot
  • In the example corpus, hooting often appears in combinations such as: hooting and, hooting for, excited hooting.

Context around Hooting

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 8 end
  • Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Often before:

excited 2× perhaps 1× gleeful 1× coffin 1× owls 1× means 1× continuous 1× jeering 1× mass 1×

Often after:

outside 1× reactions 1× armed 1× distracts 1×

Sentence patterns with Hooting

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

and their hooting and caterwauling 1× began jeering hooting and verbally 1× but excited hooting and hollering 1× from continuous hooting distracts from 1× grunting and hooting for meat 1× has been hooting for both 1× hear owls hooting after sunset 1× his gleeful hooting reactions to 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a great horned 1× ah yes i 1× all the special 1× an agriculture related 1× as woodfull bent 1× donning various impeccably 1×

Common sentence endings:

almost every ball 1× bravado it deserves 1× excitement she smiled 1× hooting after sunset 1× hooting at her 1× hooting the pm 1×

Words around Hooting

Just before it in the word index:

hootin 3 hootie 14 hooterville 3 hooters 17 hooter 19 hootenanny 10

Just after it in the word index:

hooton 10 hoots 14 hootsuite 5 hooved 6 hoovel 3 hoover 443

Similar in corpus frequency:

abad 22 abolishment 22 abr 22 abyad 22 accompanist 22 achmea 22

Corpus analysis for Hooting

  • In this selection, "hooting" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, excited, perhaps, gleeful, outside, reactions and armed stand out and add context to how "hooting" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and their hooting and caterwauling and began jeering hooting and verbally. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "hooting" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with hooting

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Mass hooting and jeering occurred after almost every ball. (9 words)

A great-horned owl, perhaps, hooting outside your window after dusk. (11 words)

This was a forest preserve lake and I could hear owls hooting after sunset. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

Donning various impeccably crisp t-shirts, Walker bounces off this energy, as his gleeful, hooting reactions to stunts are a delight — plus, Walker delivers the infamous "stare and drive" sequence with all the dumb bravado it deserves. (37 words)

As Woodfull bent down over his bat in pain for several minutes, an image that became one of the defining symbols of the series, the huge crowd began jeering, hooting and verbally abusing the English team. (36 words)

That might be because barred owls are more likely than great horned owls to be active during the day, and their hooting and caterwauling are loud and distinctive. (28 words)

Exclamation examples

One feisty little lady grabbed the pie out of my hands and ran with it to the hooting and hollering of the others! (23 words)

Example sentences (18)

A great-horned owl, perhaps, hooting outside your window after dusk.

Ah yes, I’ll think, as I hear scavengers scuttling towards my body across the trashscape, grunting and hooting for meat: that was the moment.

Donning various impeccably crisp t-shirts, Walker bounces off this energy, as his gleeful, hooting reactions to stunts are a delight — plus, Walker delivers the infamous "stare and drive" sequence with all the dumb bravado it deserves.

Get people excited, hooting and panting like chimps, and they’re anxious to wage war on one thing after another.

Mrs Hayes was so inflamed that at Mr Waine’s funeral, she followed Jane as she walked behind her husband’s coffin, “hooting” at her.

One feisty little lady grabbed the pie out of my hands and ran with it to the hooting and hollering of the others!

The actor looked visibly emotional as he greeted an ecstatic crowd that welcomed the star with hooting and a round of applause.

This was a forest preserve lake and I could hear owls hooting after sunset.

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We phoned all the kids to tell them about the win and they were hooting and hollering in excitement,” she smiled.

It’s the kind of film that draws not only raucous laughter from a crowd, but excited hooting and hollering when things get hot and heavy.

There are hundreds of them, hooting, armed with rifles, but they never hit anyone.

All the special guests, who have graced the stage of Indian Idol has been hooting for both of them to be together.

An agriculture-related festival, Homowo means “hooting at hunger”, and it has a historic antecedent grounded in the migration and settlement of Gas in their present location.

This week, thanks to all the publicity, the fire department is investigating what really happened, since its people cannot be dismissed summarily for hooting the PM.

Stops signs serve no purpose, and the cacophony from continuous hooting distracts from the original purpose.

That might be because barred owls are more likely than great horned owls to be active during the day, and their hooting and caterwauling are loud and distinctive.

As Woodfull bent down over his bat in pain for several minutes, an image that became one of the defining symbols of the series, the huge crowd began jeering, hooting and verbally abusing the English team.

Mass hooting and jeering occurred after almost every ball.

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Common combinations with hooting

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

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Hooting means: present participle and gerund of hoot
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