How to Use cackle in a Sentence

cackle

verb
  • The hens were cackling in the henhouse.
  • I could hear my aunts cackling in the next room.
  • Witches will come out this of year to cast their spells and cackle away the night.
    Woman's Day Staff, Woman's Day, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Later, in what felt like the middle of the night, some guinea fowl cackled.
    Jeffrey Gettleman, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The other students cackle on their way out the door, leaving the two of us.
    Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
  • All the cackling and debating back and forth can’t change that fact.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
  • The wind cackled in the eaves, but the little wild creatures above were unfazed.
    Okwiri Oduor, Harper's Magazine, 15 June 2022
  • His work had humor too, with licks that could cackle and leads that could tease.
    Jim Farber, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
  • His work had humor, too, with licks that could cackle and leads that could tease.
    Jim Farber, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • When Tannahill flipped upside-down for the second time, the cast and crew cackled.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The sisters tried not to cackle, though Eleanor knew that laughter was the greatest change of subject.
    David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The Cats movie trailer was released, and the internet cackled, howled, and screamed.
    Tara Edwards, refinery29.com, 23 July 2019
  • After getting the go-ahead, Koch unlocks the racks with one shot, cackling with glee as the deer run off unscathed.
    Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 28 Feb. 2023
  • My cat has started flirting with a squirrel that cackles on the opposite side of the screen door.
    Glen David Gold, New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • The Whale star couldn't help but drop an F-bomb when the teeth fell completely out, much to the audience's cackling delight.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2023
  • This memoir suggests Mr. Springsteen met many of them while cackling over there in the shotgun seat.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2016
  • And yet Heller is silent and Republicans are cackling about buying him off, so the bill seems to be very much alive at the moment.
    Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 14 July 2017
  • A few examples from Kwai: As geese cackle in the yard of a rural home, a bride holds up her white wedding gown so its hem doesn’t touch the dirt.
    Li Yuan, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2017
  • She’s taken her growing pains in stride and continues to cackle with glee through her rise.
    Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 9 July 2021
  • That southern girl, born in Atlanta, has a boisterous laugh and cackle that won’t deny you a good time.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 28 Oct. 2022
  • And the Halloween-eve hair-raiser adds a cackling skeleton to a horror arcade of ghoulish news for EVs.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023
  • There was a lull, during which time Ally and I cackled with excitement.
    Maria Del Russo, The Cut, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Luke’s desperate fight, the Emperor cackling, telling him to give himself over to his hate.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Instead, Roseanne’s cackling drowns these stories out—that’s what star power is.
    Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • This Halloween, forget the pumpkins, fake blood and cackling wicked witches.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The helmeted hornbill is a huge, cackling bird native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia.
    National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2016
  • The helmeted hornbill is a huge, cackling bird native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia.
    National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2016
  • Minnie appears to accept, and the pair share a hug as Sandoval and her companions cackle with laughter.
    Janine Puhak, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
  • In between takes, both stars cackle after their fiery makeout sessions and on-camera play fights.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Martha is no cackling Disney villain, and Donny is no innocent lamb.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024

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