Examples of cheer

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The teachers' pleas for calm were greeted with cheers that would not have been out of place at a basketball game.
She was horrified to see thousands, who doubtless had once sat and cheered her, homeless and hungry.
Toasts were drunk, cheers raised, and the flag planted, all whilst ankle-deep in the guano of a resident penguin colony.
When we saw them coming back in the boat, six of them, we all got together and gave three hearty cheers for them.
Descending scales over a held chord near the end helped fuel big cheers and a standing ovation for the new work.
In response, the audience cheered and applauded enthusiastically.
The candidates were enthusiastically applauded and greeted with cheers.
Many of them cheered the apparent demise of pastoralism.
Spectators, by then a few hundred, cheered as the pole began to rise.
The workers began to join hands in visual reflection of this common goal, and the affir mative cheers of the whole audience suggested their own participation in this mystic community.
Over a thousand people took part in the procession, and the citizens, with their houses decorated and their balconies filled with cheering subjects, formed part of the show.
A tank full of petrol if we feel like it ... we cheered ourselves up ... whereas it would have been another miserable day, it did us good.
When the ' impossibilists ' present cheered his latter remark, he rebuked them sharply for cheering assassination, while refusing to countenance the presence of a socialist in a ministry.
Teachers of courses in the history of the philosophy of religion should give three hearty cheers for this volume.
No wonder the people of the capital cheered.
He argued that surely the schoolroom without the cheering in-uence of song in it is but a dull place.
Jeffords handed these citizens divided government, an outcome they should have cheered.
I wander out into the still busy square, where crowds are still cheering, conscious of the danger of the spectacle that attracts, flatters, and distorts.
A widespread popular sense that democracy has yet to deliver economic benefits cannot be cheering to an incumbent government.
They assumed perfect foresight, perfect markets, and "helicopter drops" of money to cheering households.
Cheerleading passes this test with flying colors and 'spirited cheers,' as shown in the picture on the previous page.
Caregiving behavior is manifested when the child is focused on helpfully guiding, orienting, or cheering up the parent.
Indeed, at first glance, the work's auspices as well as its theme must have cheered avant-garde playgoers.
His speech was interrupted by cheers and applause.
He knew what it was to eat both (cheers).
I had no friend to meet, no cheering to receive.
The rest of the people used to be around cheering and when they got fed up they'd hoof them out, you know.
When they appeared upon the balcony of the national palace, they were greeted with cheers and the waving of thousands of national flags.
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