How To Use Laughter In A Sentence

The performance had the legislature, including the subjects of the barbs, rocking with laughter.
Accompanied by an ensemble, Musica Fiata, incorporating specialist period instruments such as chalumeau, arciliuto and violino in tromba marina, La Capella Ducale deliver the psalms with joy, some of the ornamentation is so detailed it sounds like laughter. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
And with a little flurry of placative laughter, she added: "At your age, of course! The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown
Children in particular should not have to witness wholesale slaughter of animals to which they may have become very attached.
Bull calves from dairy herds are usually castrated, becoming steers, and sent to feedlots, where they are fattened for slaughter, usually before the age of 2.

Jackson and Lee continued to preside over the wanton slaughter of men, women and children to defend the rights of freedom for white Virginians while supporting the slavery of black Virginians, among others.
There was open laughter and catcalling by the end.
Certainly observant Jews remember the crusaders as evil butchers, who on their way to Jerusalem, slaughtered and massacred many thousands of Jews and decimated entire Jewish communities such as Speyer, Worms and Mayencea and of course, when they arrived in Jerusalem, put the holy Jews of the city to the sword. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
It feels as if all that laughter's going in a hyperbola above my head, with one of them sitting behind me and the other directly before me.
He remembers his mother convulsed with laughter. Times, Sunday Times
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. Northern Rock - Pay staff a bonus with public cash.
There must have been laughter amidst the apes when the Neanderthaler first appeared on earth. Autumn
Hog waste is a major pollution source, communities surrounding the factories are strangled by a foetid stench and animal rights groups have long complained about the inhumane way pigs are raised and slaughtered.
Many animals are not properly stunned as they are pushed through the slaughterhouse as quickly as possible.
The laughter wasn't very loud, it sounded normal, unlike the laughter of a madman, or a drunken pirate.
From up stream came the babble of the brook like dainty laughter.
This involved quite elaborate dressing-up, and the fun and laughter of those Boxing Day nights was a treasure indeed.
With her legs curled under her on a sofa, she is relaxed enough to punctuate the conversation with sudden gusts of wild laughter.
Carol is part of the London Laughter Club, a group which has the sole aim of making each other laugh.
Flick the years of dust, to laughter and tears, love and cemented in the minds of a thick crystal amber. I wish happy new year! I wish you the new year: don't gain weight, before the person you most Qiao; money in hand, laughing in the dream.
The industry is highly vertically integrated, with poultry production companies (known as integrators) contracting with farmers (referred to as growers) to raise the birds prior to slaughter Number of broilers and other meat-type chickens sold in the United States, 2007 (Source: USDA Census of Agriculture, 2007). PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
The future King was in fits of laughter as he clung to this white-knuckle fairground ride. The Sun
In fact, the back was so far away from the stage, a time delay on the punchline created a wave of laughter.
This proposal was met with guffaws of laughter from the Labour-dominated committee, which included the then Coun Keith Thomson.
Scenes of milking, slaughtering and butchering cattle, and hunting wild cattle in swamps are also shown.
I used to read it aloud to my little brother, and we'd collapse into helpless laughter.
Suddenly his speech is fluent, his laughter rich and full. Times, Sunday Times
Why do TV channels insist on added canned laughter and applause on quiz shows? The Sun
Bouchons were originally wine bars where the local silk workers or passing stagecoach drivers could fill up on a simple, hearty cuisine that was based on fresh local products -- mostly pig in the form of andouillette, fried crackling, tripes, petit salé -- and lots of the local wine among like-minded souls, enjoying their brief moment of freedom amid laughter and loud, boisterous behavior. Jamie Schler: A Side Trip to Lyons: Le Bouchon
The wife of a fellow runner works in the same place as him, and has related, with tears of laughter in her eyes, accounts of his exit from his car in the morning.
The Brits, with their propensity for schoolboy humour and scatology, deal with the subject by uproarious laughter.
Once finished, a titan claws its way from the ground and starts off on a tear towards your enemy's town, where it slaughters anything in its path.
The organist was a slightish man, white-haired, who seemed to hover in the alcove, his back to the audience, wizardly in his very smallness, and he hit the thunder pedal just as a figure on the screen drew back cowering from some danger above, and laughter swept the auditorium. Underworld
How can our brave Bible-bashing warlords keep spinning tales of freedom & reconstruction, while presiding over scenes of torture and slaughter? TURNING UP THE HEAT
The birthers may have reached and passed their peak, though, thanks to the scrutiny, the derisive laughter, and the backlash from the overkill on the part of the wingnuts in the mainstream media like Lou Dobbs. That Settles That
Hearing this, Val fell silent and then suddenly exploded into fits of wild laughter.
She spread some laughter by describing the residents in the affected area as 'pure boggin' and 'hummin'' due to the lack of clean water.
The lack of laughter in the auditorium is offset only by our blind hope that there is method in this madness and that an explanation is around the corner.
Mr Morgan and his organ releasing them into hysterical laughter had anaesthetized the horror of the past.
Chatting in their usual rapid-fire mix of Czech and Slovak -- a sound that assistant coach Tim Hunter once described as "three guys trying to drown: blub-blub-blub" -- the trio suddenly broke into hysterical laughter. From the archives: Skating through life
Calne Players will be bringing all the fun and laughter of a pantomime to the town next week with their performance of Cinderella.
The slaughter and butchery of 200 cattle and the consumption of 40,000 kilos of beef, even if spread over a year or two, suggest the participation of many communities, perhaps from a whole clan or tribe.
The pre-emptive slaughter of healthy animals was extended by the administrations in Whitehall and Edinburgh yesterday.
Only the sizzling Mongolian lamb hotpot, mayo-slaughtered wasabi prawns, the stodgy dumplings and leaden-battered soft-shell crab were truly terrible.
Now he puts the light sounds with something else remembered, with primrose, with laughter, and down through him a prickle runs and it seems to stop in his belly, below him.
But the most haunting of all the melodies is the warbling laughter of the Tulameen; its delicate note is far more powerful, more far-reaching than the throaty thunders of Niagara. Legends of Vancouver
His laughter was spiteful and mirthless, and he took his time, content to let his presence sink in.
INSKEEP: Was that because studio time is expensive or because� (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. AUERBACH: That's because, you know, we're cheap. BlakRoc: The Black Keys Do Hip-Hop
Ellen pealed with laughter.
It was some time before the hubbub of laughter died down.
Regular readers had pulled out all the stops to send a barrel-load of side-splitting entries that had our funny-man rolling around on the floor with laughter.
This was the punch line: the audience roared with laughter. Times, Sunday Times
Over the course of the year, he's almost hit on the head by a sparrowhawk, gets a whiff of "bad badger breath" when three cubs cannon into his lap, and watches two stoats massacre a screaming leveret, their normally creamy bibs "the colour of a slaughterman's apron". A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger by Colin Elford
I collapsed in laughter and began tickling him in earnest.
Yet it has proven to be hollow laughter. Times, Sunday Times
She rejected it at first, thinking naively she could continue being a political journalist until she heard the whole nation cackle with laughter. Times, Sunday Times
I didn't expect him until dinnertime. He just about scared the bejabbers out of me as he sneaked up behind me and burst into this sudden, uproarious laughter.
We linked arms and sang the Lambeth Walk and formed a conga line, there was laughter, and singing.
I don't have any open wound healing is slaughtered,nobody knows my heart setbacks.
The laughter on the boats mingled with that on shore, adding to the jubilation on National Day.
Although he trained under an Orthodox rabbi in Israel, his Conservative ordination means the animals he slaughters cannot be certi ﬁ ed as kosher by any supervising agencies. Sue Fishkoff: The New Jewish Food Movement: Jews Who Meet What They Eat
The laughter on the boats mingled with that on shore, adding to the jubilation on National Day.
The crowds relaxed into laughter at the speaker's excellent joke.
We have banned the use of veal crates, and taken action to ensure humane slaughter.
I once made a German friend hoot with laughter by referring, in English, to the Arch of Diocletian, pronouncing the Emperor's name "die-oh-clee-shun. National Review Online
The light tinkle of Inger's laughter seemed to fill the small room.
He wasn't sure how he was managing to keep control of his laughter, but he was very grateful for it.
It is as well to bear in mind that laughter is a great releaser of tension.
Pigs are innocent victims of a cruel, unrelenting slaughterhouse industry.
The entire class hooted with laughter, and poor Mr Abbott just looked a bit confused.
I don't have any open wound healing is slaughtered,nobody knows my heart setbacks.
The lesser charges include first-degree and second-degree manslaughter as well as criminally negligent homicide.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. Charles Dickens
Hrothgar's hall resounds with the laughter and songs of poets, who retell the famed history of the Danish tribe.
The noise of the wind and the voice of the driver who was the slaughterman. THE LAST RAVEN
And as he watched her in confusion, Shelley's chuckle turned into an uncontrollable, hysterical fit of laughter.
He went about his work, unheedful of the jests, ungalled by his irons, unmindful of the groans and laughter about him.
By the time Hiss was offering his secrets to Stalin's agents, the news about the gulags - vast concentration camps which slaughtered over 15 million innocent people - was out and beyond dispute.
Are his lame slapstick antics intended to send us into convulsions of laughter?
It was a squeaky fart, this one, with some laughter in the background.
I heard a beautiful yet patternless noise that my mind tentatively identified as laughter.
A typical meat-eating animal welfare advocate is personally responsible for the slaughter of twenty-two warm-blooded animals per year, 1,500 in an average lifetime.
Achilles slaughters sheep and they feast and drink.
Most people would have considered this almost a slaughter of Cappagh by the Larries Lassies but my source tells me that it was a tough match and that Cappagh were very determined.
She laughed that remarkable laughter that sounds so very much like chimes, the laughter of feminine innocence, pure joy, a laugh that begins in the diaphragm, explodes through a grin and electrifies the eyes. Stop the runaway horses
Laughter resounded through the house.
The audience was helpless with laughter.
Wu Jinying is grasping steel knife to slaughter a cattle in workshop is involute arm, hand.
A judge accepted her plea that she was guilty of manslaughter, not murder.
However this leaves physicians in a difficult situation, since if they accede to a request from a patient to cease routine treatment, or to help her to die, they may very well under present laws, be charged with manslaughter.
The Rav brings a number of sources that essentially prohibit women slaughterers based on the fact that a shochet is a communal position and women cannot hold communal positions. DovBear
Restrictions and slaughter provisions apply to domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quail, ratites, pigeons, pheasants and partridges reared or kept in captivity.
She rolls her eyes and snorts with laughter when reminded of the description. The Sun
Harold had kept his bodyguards - the housecarls - with him but they could not stop the onslaught and Harold and his men were slaughtered by the Normans.
(Soundbite of laughter) Ms. POUNDSTONE: I don't know, you know, I have a silly peccadillo which is that I call body parts by their names. Panel Round Two
Better the last smile than the first laughter.
I couldn't stand to watch them slaughter the cattle.
He gave a low gurgle of laughter.
Simon waited until the laughter subsided.
Not the $8 an hour knocker, sticker, bleeder, tail ripper, flanker, gutter, sawer, and plate boner slaughterhouse jobs that even Americans prisoners on work release won't do. What Do Immigration and Religion Have to Do with the Price of Meat? Everything!
Five cows and 30 sheep were slaughtered during the event, which together with the bride's R60000 lobola cost the groom a total of R200000.
My colleague and I looked at each other and then dissolved into helpless laughter.
From the kitchen, she could hear peals of laughter sounding where Robert, the butler, was doubtless entertaining her younger siblings.
Throughout, the metaphor of brother against brother is a kind of metonymy for civil butchery in which family members slaughter one another in a grim contest of reciprocity. Shakespeare
They sabered the officer who raised a white surrender flag, and bayoneted the wounded in a merciless slaughter.
He roared with laughter when he heard. Times, Sunday Times
Later, at the read-through, he dials down the sound of piggish laughter of the cast and crew until only his own breathing can be heard.
But by gum, I just can't bear the notion of some Joe Lunchpail and his slovenly wife trundling clumsily through my private slaughterhouse, or trying on my world-renowned collection of 16th century undergarments.
Chelsea gave a choke of laughter, almost tripping in the process.
Several offences such as manslaughter may be committed by omission.
Dr. Brian Little had attendees roaring with laughter with his psychological analysis of extraverts, introverts and ambiverts and how we are more efficient together.
The old woman's cacodemonic laughter broke out again. The Mummy Case
Then it would be slaughtered, plucked and cleaned in time for dinner on the day itself.
He felt the familiar glow rise once more in his stomach at the sound of the silvery laughter.
Then she bursts into infectious laughter. Times, Sunday Times
As for the Last Supper, some of us see no reason for Jesus eating the paschal lamb because HE WAS THEPASCHAL LAMB - soon to be slaughtered on the hill of Calvary. by The Ecological Impacts of Animal Agriculture
In May the Government announced plans to publish a draft Bill on corporate manslaughter with the timetable for legislation, plus further details, to be announced this autumn.
The audience collapses in laughter, and the theater resounds with a barrage of applause.
In fact, the only laughter he had heard from her was either scornful or sarcastic, and was usually directed at him.
I couldn't hold in my chuckles of laughter and neither, it seemed, could Derek as I saw his shoulders shake.
The non-intellectual wing of the Christian Right Community has committed a sacrilege and blasphemy, (to say nothing of the secular crime of high treason), because they have accepted the fiction of a cynical team of writers, who depict the god they describe as a homicidal, Demonic, maniac, and touted these despicable properties as "holiness," and used that as an excuse to support and urge the slaughter of their chosen Muslim fantasy enemies. THE SHAMELESS END-DAYS FICTIONAL REPLACEMENT FOR REVELATION.
He went off in hoots of laughter again, while Mina crossed her arms and glowered at him.
voluntary manslaughter
Not out of hatred but out of love for humanity, King condemned an American military campaign that sent its soldiers "to slaughter men, women and children" and construct "concentration camps we call fortified hamlets. Scott Kurashige: Obama's Crisis and MLK's Hard Truths
A sound of laughter issued from the adjoining room.
Not only could she carry on any kind of conversation, ranging from various topics, but her wittiness and toying sarcasm often brought laughter from the circle of people that were gathered.
The mass slaughter of animals seized from wildlife markets in Guangdong province was launched despite appeals for caution by the World Health Organisation.
The New York Times said the show had all the hallmarks of quality broadcasting: laughter, tears, a man in a shiny suit and a clapometer. MR STARLIGHT
Aaaaaaand time to call it a night. chaosreality is in dutch with his girl, dravengodvamp's chatting online, the booze has shifted from goofy laughter to deep introspective discussion, and I have to be at the rehab house in 5.5 hours to see Ray, so I better get my happy ass to bed. Voice Post
The fans responded in kind, cheering him and howling with laughter at his relentless japery. Jonah Keri: Tim Raines, Andre Dawson, and Being an Expos Fan
And with that the man laughed too, and with the fuff of his laughter the candle went out. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896
Your hand luxuriant line entanglements into the city in whose laughter.
And then we shall not be sorry because we cannot get a Gairfowl to stuff, much less find gairfowl enough to drive them into stone pens and slaughter them, as the old Norsemen did, or drive them on board along a plank till the ship was victualled with them, as the old English and French rovers used to do, of whom dear old The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
May your birthday be filled with smiles,sunshine,love,and laughter.
Then a babble of talk and tension-relieving laughter breaks out.
Mortimer also discovered symptoms of lush-logic, for though he had an inclination to keep up the chaff, his dictionary appeared to be new modelled, and his lingo abridged by repeated clips at his mother tongue, by which he afforded considerable food for laughter. Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
Every joke the comedian made was greeted by a salvo of laughter from the audience.
Donnelly, 37, ran a campaign that emphasized his relative youth - and a recent illness of Slaughter's - as well as what he called her neglect of all constituents except the ones in Monroe County. Tonawanda News Homepage
The driver was arrested on a charge of manslaughter.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
A game of scrabble is underway, and there is much laughter and good feeling here in the relative quiet and isolation of the Jakes salt-water pool area. Calabash–Second Day and Night : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
The demand for his personal appearances in cabaret and after dinner speeches is testimony to his brilliant wit, and his ability to develop right good humour and side-splitting laughter.
Farmers hoped to send their animals to early slaughter to avoid financial losses.
Before the middle of the seventh century A.D. the area had been "ruralized," for instance the Trajanic street fountain being used as a dump for slaughtered cattle remains (see Lower Agora - North, July 20-August 2). Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Conclusions: Urban Development
He raises his arms to shield himself, the birdcall surrounding him like manic laughter. Corvus
I miss the innocent giggle and the unfettered laughter that used to be more forthcoming.
This one is without arms, that one has had his shoulder pulled down out of shape in order that his grotesqueries may excite laughter…
Dan's friends cackled in the background, but he ignored their laughter and jeering comments.
Flick the years of dust, to laughter and tears, love and cemented in the minds of a thick crystal amber. I wish happy new year! I wish you the new year: don't gain weight, before the person you most Qiao; money in hand, laughing in the dream.
A civil war in Sri Lanka, extending nowhere else, untainted on either side by even a whiff of Islamism -- a war in which a minority people, slaughtered mercilessly for decades, have come to identify (at least to some extent) with a brutal counterforce called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is now effortlessly connected to 9/11. Archive 2009-04-01
He gave a low gurgle of laughter.
Clara hoots with laughter at the thought of getting papped in the street. The Sun
I look at the humorous side of life - laughter is important to me. Times, Sunday Times
We nearly split our sides laughing/with laughter watching Paul trying to get the dog into the bicycle basket.
In some cases, entrails of slaughtered animals are served back to others ‘stuck in the queue’ at slaughterhouses.
You should have inserted a pause right there to give the audience time to collapse in hysterical laughter. Think Progress » Palin aide refuses to criticize Limbaugh by name when calling his ‘retard’ comments ‘crude and demeaning.’
But their awestruck silence was soon replaced by gales of laughter when their teacher read the letter out loud.
Instead of treating laughter as a happy by-product of honesty, it tries too hard. Times, Sunday Times
Organic livestock producers must not feed mammalian or poultry slaughter byproducts to mammals or poultry.
Her babysitter was slaughtered but Rachel managed to escape - though not before offing Bateman with an ice pick!
Round and round the decks they went, Mugridge sick with fear, the sailors hallooing and shouting directions to one another, and the hunters bellowing encouragement and laughter.
Laughter without air and sunshine becomes morbid, decadent, demoniac. The House Beautiful
Her voice was brimming over with joyous laughter.
In his case, on appeal, the Chief Justice for the first time ruled that the defence of chance medley that downsized murder to manslaughter could not be pleaded under British law.
But for the most part, the second half of All the World's a Stage put aside serious concerns in favor of laughter and ribaldry, and showcased the intelligence and heart of Shakespeare Behind Bars veteran Jerry Guenthner.
If malice aforethought is lacking the unlawful homicide will be manslaughter.
I say that as a graduate of the University of Virginia who collapses in helpless laughter whenever I hear someone use the term “Virginia gentleman”. Matthew Yglesias » A New First
High-pitched laughter and low chuckles combined with the rise and fall of conversations caught in snatches.
This is a slaughter of the two candidates who seemed to have Iowa locked up between them.
To avoid the stress of transportation, the turkeys will be humanely slaughtered on the farm.
To the laughter of those around me, I marched him to the creek and sat down to remove my boots before pulling him into the water.
There were more shrieks of laughter as they splashed about. Times, Sunday Times
The spelling of our language in respect to the pronunciation is also wonderfully defective, though perhaps less so than that of the French; as the words slaughter and laughter are pronounced totally different, though spelt alike. Note XV
Just around the corner of my street, the mechanical laughter of California quail and the quarrel of crows up in the majestic heights of a Colorado spruce that was left to grow, untended for years now.
Laughter bubbled up inside him.
He sat cackling with laughter as he read. The Sun
They soon subsided into a bout of laughter while tears of mirth glistened in their eyes.
A click sounded, and a hollow laughter echoed through the room she was in.
May the New Year be a time of laughter and real enjoyment for you. Best wishes.
Thus, even though nomads have to get much of their food by slaughtering animals from their herds, their way of life is still religiously respectable.
To dirt, chaos, maharajas, beggars, cows on the road, roaring rivers, fervid sunshine, unpredictability, and loud laughter.
Some raucous laughter followed the ribald remark.
I nearly dozed, although I did notice a surprising amount of female laughter in the audience.
In other lands however there are pillagers and marauders that keep me strong, but soon will come a time when slaughter shall cover these lands and I shall rise above the rest.
Women ran screaming with children in their arms, and old folk tripped over one another trying to escape the slaughter.
This shows us the reason why in mixed modes any of the ideas that make the composition of the complex one being left out or changed, it is allowed to be another thing, i.e. to be of another species, as is plain in chance-medley, manslaughter, murder, parricide, &c. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
The "slaughterman" was in fact an eighty-year-old lady and, once a week, she would buy a beast from the market and keep it in her paddock. The emasculation of common sense
In the midst of the morning rush-hour his laughter drifted after her, curling round her senses and inflaming her still further.
He gives a little snort of laughter. Times, Sunday Times
Their apparent grief turned to crazy laughter in a minute.
The squirearchy does not have some exclusive licence to indulge in barbarism just because grandpa thought slaughter was a sport and the tenants know their place.
Slaughtermen culling sheep during the foot-and-mouth crisis were leaving loaded guns unattended, a court was told yesterday.
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. Henri Bergson
It is not hard to fathom why Rwanda, still not fully healed from an ethnic slaughter that was egged on by radio zealots, would look for ways to regulate what it calls "divisionism" in the media. NYT > Home Page
Reading about your lives and sharing the laughter, love, and daily irritations have made my life much richer and happier.
Flick the years of dust, to laughter and tears, love and cemented in the minds of a thick crystal amber. I wish happy new year! I wish you the new year: don't gain weight, before the person you most Qiao; money in hand, laughing in the dream.
He wanted the manslaughter charge dropped and says the case is full of uncertainty.
His laughter eventually subsided into amused chuckles, which flushed vermillion into her cheeks.
I think I may be a little self absorbed (T hears guffaws of knowing laughter from various corners of the globe).
They succumbed in laughter, and eventually gave up, and danced jive to the lively music.

How To Use Laughter In A Sentence

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