How to Use laughingstock in a Sentence

laughingstock

noun

• The team has become the laughingstock of the league.
• The mayor became a laughingstock.
• Indeed, it’s made the Jazz the laughingstock of the league.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 June 2022
• The other has been the laughingstock of the NFL for more than a decade.
  — Jon Hoefling, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2024
• The Red Raiders’ defense has been the laughingstock of the Big 12 for years.
  — Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2022
• At that point, the Clippers were the laughingstock of the league — but the Warriors were worse.
  — Rusty Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 4 June 2019
• Remember when the 76ers were the laughingstock of the NBA?
  — Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 23 June 2017
• In the ’60s, the Mets took eight years to evolve from laughingstocks to lovable contenders.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• The Gators were the laughingstock of the SEC back then and just two years removed from a 13-game losing streak.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 13 July 2019
• Trump and his enablers have made my country the laughingstock of the world.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2017
• The witnesses made Ohio a laughingstock and bill doesn’t have the votes to pass in its current form.
  — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 15 July 2021
• If not for the attractive Lakers brand, the team would have been the laughingstock of the league much sooner.
  — Barry Bauling, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• Most would agree it’s overdue for a franchise that has been a laughingstock for the better part of the past decade.
  — Mark Long, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• His club has gone from the laughingstock of the majors to the best record in the AL and Henderson has played a huge role in their success.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• Today Trump and his enablers have made my country the laughingstock of the world.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2017
• West’s influence turned the Warriors from a laughingstock to the league’s lodestar.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 12 June 2024
• Yes, the Raiders are once again the laughingstock of the NFL — the franchise that all the others look toward to feel better about themselves.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2019
• The Yankees’ resurgence has been especially painful in Queens, where the Mets have gone from the talk of the town to a laughingstock.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 28 June 2018
• This band of partisans, some from out of town, has made our city a laughingstock.
  — latimes.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• No, this isn’t the same Bengals team that was seen by some outside of Cincinnati as a laughingstock.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
• Through 11 weeks of the NFL season, the Browns have returned to their familiar role of league laughingstocks.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• Before Week 10, the Philadelphia Union were the laughingstock of the league.
  — Alexander Abnos, SI.com, 15 May 2017
• The Baylor Bears went to play Duke as a laughingstock after losing two games at home.
  — Vince Langford, star-telegram, 16 Sep. 2017
• The Warriors, the league’s biggest laughingstock not so long ago, have entered the NBA history books as one of the great teams of all time.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 June 2018
• The highway rest stop, long the laughingstock of motorists, is getting a long-overdue makeover.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2018
• The butt of the joke here is the white Establishment, reduced by Everett’s tropes and puns to a redneck laughingstock.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2021
• That’s the homegrown trio that took the Warriors from irrelevance and laughingstock status to the top of the mountain.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 30 June 2019
• Now a sign-stealing scandal has turned the Astros into a laughingstock, their rings all but meaningless to the rest of the sport.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
• The youngest generation's reference to the Buckeye State appears to be a laughingstock within the online community, making waves on social media sites like TikTok.
  — Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 15 Aug. 2024
• Long dismissed as a lackey or a laughingstock (thanks to his looks and his limp), the former driver turned factory manager spots an opportunity where others only see catastrophe.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024