How to Use chortle in a Sentence

chortle

verb

• That chortled-at peach-fuzzy coach, Sean McVay, is the reigning coach of the year.
  — Seattle Times Sports Staff, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
• For her part, Clinton sat there and chortled, righteous and aglow.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 6 Oct. 2017
• My year-old daughter is chortling, making silly faces with my mom.
  — Bridget Shirvell, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• That’s what the running game has brought to the offense, which had started to chortle and choke through various stretches of the season.
  — Bob McManaman, azcentral, 24 Dec. 2019
• Old media chortled at stumbling by a paragon of big data.
  — The Hive, 20 Jan. 2017
• Her friends were offended, but Hader chortled through the bit.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah has been booked to tell the jokes that everyone will chortle over at first, then complain about later.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 29 Apr. 2022
• There have been some assorted chuckles, chortles, and guffaws about the theme of this season.
  — Dalton Ross, PEOPLE.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• One of the others chortled; his friend explained: Dude, there’s, like, a legit Iranian sitting right there.
  — Rachel Z. Arndt, Longreads, 11 Apr. 2018
• From Kansas City came some chortling about the unexpected result of Thursday night’s football game.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Sep. 2017
• Casey, a veteran pol, chortled and rubbed his hands together in glee upon hearing this.
  — Bill Torpy, ajc, 4 June 2018
• His supporters could be heard chortling in the back row during testimony from one Liberian war victim.
  — Jeremy Roebuck, Philly.com, 12 June 2018
• The main entertainment was Jimmy Buffett, bluff and chortling, on hand to promote his feel-good jukebox musical.
  — Matthew Schneier, New York Times, 10 May 2018
• Patriots fans will once again sit on their couches and chortle at the abject stupidity of every coach who goes up against Belichick.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019
• Letting the chauvinists chortle over Riggs’s victories would not help in the battle for public opinion.
  — Lorne Manly, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• Klobuchar contrasted her big picture talk with stories of her family’s humble roots — her grandfather was a miner, who used a coffee can to save for her father’s future — and kept the crowd chortling with jokes.
  — NBC News, 3 Feb. 2020
• By all means, chortle at the thought of executives racking their brains until the wee hours in search of something more clever, before desperately concluding that the placeholder was good enough.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 11 Jan. 2023
• Children ride their bikes to community pools and grow up listening to alligators chortle at night.
  — Jack Healy, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2018
• Sheila was his beautiful blond wife, holding their chortling infant in a campaign commercial for his first run as the Republican candidate for mayor.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2019
• There are a host of other chortling jack-o-lanterns as well, usually including an enormous one shooting flames from the top of its roasting head, an effect created by soaking toilet paper rolls in kerosene.
  — M. Carrie Allan, The Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2019
• But Last Man Standing has reached a point where its more emotional and dramatic moments work better than its comedic ones, which are increasingly just a series of moments where Mike chortles about the results of the last election.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 29 Sep. 2018
• Ed's nasty chortles project everything from abject fear to hunger, dramatic interest, wanderlust and just plain evil laughter.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2018
• His liberal critics have chortled about the president’s stated desire to review a big bristling military parade in Washington in the near future.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 4 May 2018
• While much attention is paid to audience chortles, the laughter of the stand-up comic remains underexamined, despite being a critical part of the performer’s tool set.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2017
• So, yes, by all means chortle and smirk online at the consensual private trespasses of Jerry Falwell Jr., yet another great Protestant hypocrite laid low.
  — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2020
• Still, the Trump administration must prepare itself for the coming wave of congressional oversight and investigative efforts and avoid chortling over how Democrats will overdo it.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2018
• The Toronto audience chortled over the minimizing sequence in particular, during which techs scoop up the newly tiny beings with spatulas like cookies on a tray.
  — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2017
• Meanwhile, the pirate Blackbeard will be chortling from beyond the grave, laughing at the very notion of property ownership, intellectual or otherwise.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 2 Nov. 2019
• It’s not every day that an American president and a foreign dictator chortle together over the IQ of an American former vice president.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Oct. 2020
• Then the president can chortle if immigrants who are here illegally duck away from participating in the population count.
  — George Skelton, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018

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