Sentence examples for catcalling from inspiring English sources
The word "catcalling" is correct and usable in written English
It refers to the act of making unsolicited comments or gestures, often of a sexual nature, towards someone in public. Example: "She walked past a group of men who began catcalling her, making her feel uncomfortable." Alternatives include "street harassment" or "verbal harassment."
verb
Present participle of catcall
Ms Gillard retaliated by saying that she was offended by Mr Abbott's "catcalling" across the chamber "to make an honest woman of herself" (it happens that Ms Gillard is unmarried).
Advocates contend that catcalling laws can discourage macho behaviour that leads to worse crimes.
One objective is to make women aware that such behaviour "is violent and shouldn't be tolerated", says Victoria Donda, a congresswoman who wrote the national bill.If Argentina criminalises catcalling, it will be joining a Latin trend.
My friends and I would walk river to river, along St .Marks Place and Eighth Street, passing drag queens in front of No. 15, skaters catcalling us at the Astor Place Cube, drug dealers everywhere hissing, "Smoke, smoke," and the grimy, pierced runaways known as "crusty punks" sitting on the corners with their bandanna-collared dogs.
They hung around blasting music from their cars and eating sunflower seeds, or catcalling to passing girls from the protest.
Standing on this rubble mountain, dozens of West Berliners added to the din by whistling through their fingers, hooting, and catcalling.
Mauricio Macri, Buenos Aires's mayor (and probable candidate in this year's presidential election), said not long ago that "secretly, all women like it when you catcall them".Most emphatically disagree.
Perhaps they're the women talked over in meetings, dismissed as "tokens" in universities and top jobs, forgotten in Parliament, taxed on their "luxury" tampons, catcalled and wolf-whistled at in the street, asked inappropriate or illegal questions in their job interviews at three times the rate of men.
During this period she was filmed being catcalled 108 times.
When inspired, the group catcalled in the direction of traffic — provoked by an angry driver, a hand gesture or a shout, the look of fear or disgust on an elderly face, or the mere fact of a particularly ostentatious vehicle, like a Humvee or a Bentley.
Occasionally, he catcalled and wolf-whistled across his mute alienation, his pantomime of hate momentarily collapsed.
