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How to use laughter in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Laughter means the sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound. Example: “Their loud laughter betrayed their presence.”

Examples of laughter by meaning

nounThe sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.

  • Their loud laughter betrayed their presence.

More sentences with laughter

  • There was a loud hiccup from the back of the room and the class erupted in laughter.From the entry hiccup
  • There were several loud hiccups from the back of the room, and the class erupted in laughter.From the entry hiccups
  • He grew disenchanted with playing second banana and never getting credit for the laughter.From the entry second banana
  • Aside from a few stray flutters of laughter, the audience was silent.From the entry flutter
  • The audience could not contain their laughter while the manualist played on.From the entry manualist
  • The baby made a gurgly noise that might have been laughter.From the entry gurgly
  • She was bubbling over with laughter as she ran into the room.From the entry bubble over
  • He threw back his head and brayed with laughter.From the entry bray
  • I sat down amid roars of laughter.From the entry amid
  • He distances himself from people with his nasty, sardonic laughter.From the entry sardonic
  • They howled with laughter at the prank.From the entry howl
  • She admired the purity of the child’s laughter.From the entry purity
  • The crowd's laughter and jeers embarrassed him.From the entry embarrass
  • The gentle teasing between siblings filled the house with laughter.From the entry teasing
  • She tried to fight back her laughter.From the entry fight back
  • The whole table erupted in laughter.From the entry erupt
  • There was evil laughter coming from the villain's lair as he was contemplating how he was going to defeat his heroic foe.From the entry evil laughter
  • He let out a string of profanities. That acronym is a string of letters. She heard a string of applause from the audience, amid a few strings of laughter.From the entry string
  • You have just turned chaos into comedy gold with a flick of your laughter wand.2024, Brandy Covington, Anxiety Relief - Laugh Your Way To Calm, page 11. From the entry comedy gold
  • 'What, of me in the nuddy?' Nick snorts a note of laughter.2021 July 28, Ruby Speechley, The Face At The Window: A gripping, twisty thriller you won't be able to put down, Hera books Ltd, →ISBN…. From the entry facebook
  • I’m lit and turned up too!” We all broke into laughter.2020, M. Renee Carol (pseudonym; Natasha Jones), Betrayal, Loyalty & Secrets II: Revenge and Karma, NMCJ Books Publishing, →ISBN, page 161. From the entry I can't
  • At the punchline, Moshe snorts in laughter, then abashedly suppresses the smile.2018 October 8, “The Banality of the Eichmann Trial”, in Tablet Magazine. From the entry abashedly
  • I can hear a swell of laughter and boisterous merriment in Inuktitut.2018, Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth, And Other Stories (2023), page 46. From the entry Inuktitut
  • The other two guys with him burst into laughter, dudeing and high-fiving like mad.2013, Maurene Goo, Since You Asked …, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Press, →ISBN. From the entry dude
  • Real laughter, not the bitter chortlings she'd taken to indulging in.2013, Ann Gimpel, Earth's Requiem. From the entry chortling
  • This quiet is broken suddenly with an initial jump scare of the puppet's iconic laughter.2013, Jeffrey Bullins, “Hearing the Game: Sound Design”, in James Aston, editor, To See the Saw Movies: Essays on Torture Porn and…. From the entry jump scare
  • He clapped his huge hands together and let out a roar of laughter.2013, Simon Dawson, Pigs in Clover. From the entry in bits
  • He looked in Johan's eyes for a second, then exploded into raucous laughter.2013, Ian Thornton, The Great & Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms, page 87. From the entry palateful
  • With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died.2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry reform
  • Not laugh, but guffaw, which is defined as loud, raucous laughter.2012, Jeni Decker, I Wish I Were Engulfed in Flames. From the entry netherregion
  • Raucous laughter is not conducive to someone sporting an inflamed netherregion.2012, Jeni Decker, I Wish I Were Engulfed in Flames. From the entry netherregion
  • I nearly collapsed from laughter when I visualized Kenny and me wrapped in a brohug.2012, Patty Blount, Send. From the entry brohug
  • He had a sudden urge to laugh, to screech with laughter, to guffaw.2012 [1987], Rupert Thomson, Dreams of Leaving, reprint edition, A&C Black, →ISBN. From the entry spadeloads
  • “Now my boots match the rest of me,” he replied with laughter in his voice.2011, Henry A. Fischer, Emigrants and Exiles: book three, volume one, Author House, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry doppich
  • Stratonike laughed, great gutfuls of loud raucous laughter that carried across the crowd.2010, Gary Corby, The Pericles Commission, unnumbered page. From the entry gutful
  • Every time one of us fumbled with the choppers, it drew laughter from the sidelines.2009, John Higham, 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World, Alyson Publications. From the entry choppers
  • A group of Aussie guys broke into laughter at a boysy joke.2009, S. K. Lindsay, The India Experiment, page 67. From the entry boysy
  • Sitting around on sofas and velvetries with their flutes and their papers and their laughter.2009, Terry Midkiff, World is Woman, page 34. From the entry velvetry
  • Laughter is celebrated as the "best medicine", as both socially positive and personally liberatory.2009 Summer, Sandra Swart, “"The Terrible Laughter of the Afrikaner"—Towards a Social History of Humor”, in Journal of Social History…. From the entry misogelast

Meaning of laughter

  1. noun The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
  2. noun A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
  3. noun A reason for merriment.

Full definition of laughter

Questions about laughter in a sentence

How do you use laughter in a sentence?
Laughter is used as a noun. For example: “Their loud laughter betrayed their presence.”
What is a short sentence with laughter?
“The whole table erupted in laughter.”
What does laughter mean?
Laughter means the sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.

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