1.   The audience at once greeted him warmly.

2.   Republican audiences often greet him with adulation, as happened the other day when he was mobbed by admirers at a conservative conference in Washington.

3.   Send him to Regis and Kathie Lee the next day and their decidedly less hip audience greets him with equal enthusiasm.

4.   The audience greeted him like a long-lost favorite son.

5.   The audience greeted him with stunned silence.

6.   The audience greets the actress like an old friend.

7.   The movie being shown, heard but not seen, has a soundtrack of gunshots and screeching tires that the audience greets with jaded laughter.

8.   Yet the audience greeted everything with automated laughter.

9.   The screening audience greeted some of the lines with hoots of derisive laughter.