GUFFAW in a Sentence

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A loud guffaw that came from the closed room indicated that the members of the committee had not yet settled down to serious business.

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 Meanings and Examples of GUFFAW
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guffaw
 n.  loud, rude burst of laughter; horse-laugh
Classic Sentence:
1  Ferfitchkin went off into a guffaw.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
2  But, hearing my order, he burst into a guffaw.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VIII
3  Stolypin gave a deep bass guffaw as he munched a piece of bread and cheese.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVIII
4  On opening the little door, two hairy monsters flew at my throat, bearing me down, and extinguishing the light; while a mingled guffaw from Heathcliff and Hareton put the copestone on my rage and humiliation.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  Now she was aware that they knew all about her; that they were waiting for some affectation over which they could guffaw.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  Mr Dedalus uttered a guffaw of coarse scorn.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  Naturally, Pork and Dilcey and Mammy gave vent to loud guffaws at hearing the detractor of their beloved Tara set at naught.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  And once more the General's guffaws went ringing through the house.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
9  They were never vulgar, never immoral, but rather rough and primitive, with an unconventionality that spent itself in loud guffaws, slaps on the back, and naps in the corner.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
10  He guffawed at his adversaries.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
11  Half-dressed, he subsided into a chair, threw back his head, and guffawed until he came near to choking.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
Example Sentence:
1  A loud guffaw that came from the closed room indicated that the members of the committee had not yet settled down to serious business.