Examples of cheer

• The audience clapped and cheered when she stood up to speak.

• The crowd cheered as the goalkeeper deflected the shot.

• The crowd cheered in appreciation.

• Everyone clapped and cheered and you could see he was lapping it up.

• We cheered madly as the team came out onto the field.

• 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.

• The author's obvious optimism about the potential these reforms have for enhancing democratic accountability and curtailing longstanding clientelist politics is cheering though perhaps not fully warranted.

• We have already cheered the good news, and we hope that it will hold its position until the end of the match.