LAUGHTER in a Sentence

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The laughter and talking rose and fell in the dark night air, pleasant, homely, carefree sounds, gutturally soft, musically shrill.

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 Meanings and Examples of LAUGHTER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
laughter
 n.  the act or sound of laughing
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Her wonder and his laughter ran together like spring rills in a thaw.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Their clever remarks sent her into merry peals of laughter and, inspired by the thought that she considered them a remarkable pair, they fairly outdid themselves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Both boys yelled with laughter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Then there was an excited babble of negro voices in the darkness of the yard and high-pitched negro laughter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  The laughter and talking rose and fell in the dark night air, pleasant, homely, carefree sounds, gutturally soft, musically shrill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  The house seemed bursting with the crowd, and a ceaseless babble of talking and laughter and giggles and shrill feminine squeaks and screams rose and fell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  The barbecue had reached its peak and the warm air was full of laughter and talk, the click of silver on porcelain and the rich heavy smells of roasting meats and redolent gravies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  Matrons, regardless of their ages, always grouped together apart from the bright-eyed girls, beaux and laughter, for there were no married belles in the South.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  The laughter and talking became less animated and groups here and there fell silent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  Then he walked across the lawn with John Wilkes, his black head in the air, and the sound of his discomforting laughter floated back to the group about the tables.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  Ellen had stressed this at great length after catching Frank's lieutenant swinging Scarlett in the garden swing and making her squeal with laughter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  The hard little pain had at last reached Scarlett's throat and she wailed out loud--not, as Pittypat thought, for poor Charlie but because the last sounds of the wheels and the laughter were dying away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  "Sure, because she didn't have a second day," Gerald explained and bawled with laughter before recalling that perhaps such remarks were not fit for female ears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  "I'd like to learn it," replied his companion, a hint of buried laughter in his flat drawling voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  Her lips mutinous, she looked up into his eyes and saw so much amusement in their dark depths that she burst into laughter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  Soorow is at parting if at meeting there be laughter.
2  He had the audience hooting with laughter.
3  He could coax tears and laughter from his audience.
4  Hoots of laughter rose from the audience.
5  Every joke the comedian made was greeted by a salvo of laughter from the audience.
6  The audience was shrieking with laughter.
7  The chair sternly rebuked the audience for their laughter.
8  There was sycophantic laughter from the audience at every one of his terrible jokes.
9  The bar erupted into gales of laughter.
10  Simon waited until the laughter subsided.
11  Your hand luxuriant line entanglements into the city in whose laughter.
12  May the New Year be a time of laughter and real enjoyment for you.
13  It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.
14  There was shriek of laughter from the direction of Sarah's room.
15  From your parents you lean love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other.