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How to use cackle in a sentence

23 example sentences · noun, verb

Cackle means the cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg. Example: “The witch cackled evilly.”

Examples of cackle by meaning

nounFutile or excessively noisy talk.

  • There's no time to waste on silly cackle.1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet: All Quiet on the Greyfriars Front

nounA group of hyenas.

  • A cackle of hyenas might take on one male lion, but two is one too many.2021, Brent Henderson, The Roar Within: Unleashing the Powerful Truth of Who You Really Are, Baker Publishing Group
  • A single male lion facing a cackle of hyenas may feel dominant enough to choose to fight them.2025, Tom Dillon, Agile Resilience: The Psychology of Developing Resilience in the Workplace, Taylor & Francis
  • A cackle of hyenas had her surrounded, enticed by the smell of her just-given birth.2004, Gregory Townes, The Tribe, Black Print Pub., page 6

verbTo laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.

  • The witch cackled evilly.

verbTo pretend to rattle (dice) in one's hand while gripping them so that they maintain their orientation.

  • Danny cackled the dice furiously in his cupped hand, then rolled them so they stopped inches from Slattery's hands.1941, Mignon Good Eberhart, The Third Mystery Book: Six Short Mysteries, page 120

More sentences with cackle

  • The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.From the entry ride
  • Back in the bedroom next door, the conversation is moving from subdued rhubarb to a cackle.2025 May 31, Jo Ellison, “The beguiling charm of a bedtime phone call”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times…. From the entry rhubarb
  • Unable to contain myself, I throw my head back and cackle.2024 September 17, M[elinda] Pettengill, “Fire Night”, in Timber Hollow, →ISBN. From the entry bone apple teeth
  • A voice cackled all evil-like and then lightning struck the tower and with a vworp it disappeared!2014 February 23, Drew Perron, MISC: Spies With Badges: "Junior Spies The First Movie", rec.arts.comics.creative, Usenet. From the entry vworp
  • They were like tribbles, multiplying by the dozens, cackling, giggling their maniacal joy at the game.2010, Dakota Cassidy, chapter 19, in Accidentally Demonic. From the entry tribble
  • And Smallin’s voice was responsible for the maniaclike cackle that taunts listeners in the song’s opening moment.2010 November 3, Steph Rodriguez, “An unforgettable laugh”, in SN&R. From the entry maniaclike
  • Other people flip the script on the day of the jackal that'll make you cackle.2003, Deborah Gregory, The Cheetah Girls: Livin' Large!, page 405. From the entry flip the script
  • It was amused, and gave voice to eldritch cackles which betokened mirth.1900 April 7, Jack London, “An Odyssey of the North”, in The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.…. From the entry eldritch
  • They are a noisy bunch, cackling to themselves.2024, Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall, Solaris (2025), page 176. From the entry ashy-headed laughingthrush
  • The old woman walked behind them waving them on like a shepherd, but cackling in the most unshepherdly manner.2015, Robert Denethon, Steam Submarine: Into Ultima Thule, page 153. From the entry unshepherdly
  • He went right on cackling, "Lookit lookit lookit.2010, Anel Viz, Fairies in the Bottom of the Garden, page 18. From the entry lookit
  • The channel-bill cuckoos disturbed one another, up in the skies, shouting in a frenzy of old man's cackle.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 376. From the entry channel-billed cuckoo
  • Use a cackle bladder to bite on and spit blood whether faced with a gang or a single assailant.1975, Anthony Greenbank, Survival in the City, page 198. From the entry cackle-bladder
  • We should be largely cakeless and omeletless without the refrigerator cars that rush the cackle starters to our daily tables.1924, “Industry’s Dependence on the Railroads”, in John A. Russell, editor, Michigan Manufacturer and Financial Record, volume 33…. From the entry cakeless
  • "Thou coxy, cackling candle!" said Catweazle.1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 70. From the entry titter
  • It’s cold near the river, and we’re both bundled up in scarves and furry coats, looking like babushkas — “little theydies by the water,” she cackles, an expert read.2023 January 20, Brock Colyar, “The Name on Everybody’s Lips Is Jinkxie”, in Vulture, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2023. From the entry theydy
  • He cackled confidentially, like he knew more than he was telling, then threw his head back and crowed once and strutted in a full circle like a rumpled old rooster.2006, Jack Dawson, Reflections in a Curved Glass, page 31. From the entry full circle

Meaning of cackle

  1. noun The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.
  2. noun A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.
  3. noun Futile or excessively noisy talk.

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Questions about cackle in a sentence

How do you use cackle in a sentence?
Cackle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The witch cackled evilly.”
What is a short sentence with cackle?
“The witch cackled evilly.”
What does cackle mean?
Cackle means the cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.

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