[
UK
/lˈɑːf/
]
[ US /ˈɫæf/ ]
[ US /ˈɫæf/ ]
VERB
- produce laughter
NOUN
-
a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing
his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision -
a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest
he told a very funny joke
he knows a million gags
even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point
thanks for the laugh - the sound of laughing
How To Use laugh In A Sentence
- The performance had the legislature, including the subjects of the barbs, rocking with laughter.
- We laugh a lot and he has many anecdotes, funny, funny stories. The Sun
- Alaric got a bit annoyed at how long we took to leave becuase of the guinea pigs - I didn't know weather to be sympathetic or laugh when he got narky about it :/ Snell-Pym » Guinea Pigs!
- Letters from my family are sort of depressing, though sometimes my cousins write a few words that makes me laugh.
- She puts a lot of time and effort into it but she is also a laugh. Times, Sunday Times
- I said a few colorful words in our language, making him laugh.
- As soon as everyone stopped laughing, they noticed a few baby cradles at the other side of the room.
- Martin did well to recover from the onslaught to go a break up in the third set.
- There's nothing you can do to change the little ones' minds about the gewgaws and gimcracks they expect to find beneath the tree - or to stop your in-laws' annual onslaught, for that matter.
- Her partner deceives her, but she doesn't know it; her children fail, but she is told they succeed; she believes she has the admiration of others, but they laugh at her behind her back.