How to Use laughter in a Sentence

laughter

noun
  • The audience roared with laughter.
  • The love, the glitches, the sweat, the tears, the laughter and, and, and.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The hug is warm, the eyes kind, the laughter throaty and frequent.
    Giles Hattersley, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2024
  • But soon, the kitchen is filled with the sounds of hearty laughter.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022
  • The best way to achieve the medicine of laughter is through people.
    Sofia D'uva, oregonlive, 20 July 2023
  • With such a taste in our mouths, the laughter shrinks in our throats.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The comment drew a mix of gasps and laughter from the crowd.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 30 June 2024
  • The joke was met with laughter and cheers from the crowd of celebrities.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The girls threw stones in the water, and their peals of laughter rang out over the lake.
    Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
  • But the laughter from some of the comments helped us through it.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The Hero Zone is where to go for game-show-style fun and laughter.
    Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • That drew scoffs of laughter from the Democratic side of the aisle.
    Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri, Stephen Groves and Keving Freking The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Of course, there was a ripple of oohs and aahs and some laughter from the crowd.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
  • And so the space really starts to fill up with the sound of kids, the sound of laughter.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Our guests whooped us down the aisle, and there was so much laughter and tears.
    Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Fans hold up the four fingers at the start of the fourth quarter, the sound of laughter and cheers ring in the air.
    C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Cho added, causing Penn, Cho and the crowd to break out in laughter.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
  • This spread to the rest of the crowd, which, rippling with laughter, took a step back from the convoy.
    Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Rebel yells and hearty laughter echoes up and down the streets and into the ancient peaks cradling the town.
    Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2023
  • Here’s to 26 years of friendship and laughter and many many more .
    Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The best thing about my school life was the laughter that was elicited from my friends.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Her voice and laughter boomed across rooms or even large stores.
    Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Good satire also has to sting, and the show’s laughter never lets us off the hook.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Eid now is no longer a day of laughter, but a day of tears and longing.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
  • But that edge is what makes the laughter that much sweeter.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Kyung Hee did the thing with her hands in front of her mouth, to contain her laughter.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The show’s white audience roars—the bad kind of laughter.
    Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • That weekend is filled with lots of laughter and tears.
    Grace Bastidas, Parents, 23 July 2024
  • May 2025 be filled with beautiful moments, laughter, and all the blessings your hearts can hold.
    Lauryn Overhultz, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2025
  • During a storm that caused a power outage and shut down nearby roads, laughter filled the air as someone began humming a popular Mexican cumbia song.
    Ale Delgado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025

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