laughter
IPA: ɫˈæftɝ
noun
- The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
- A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
- (archaic) A reason for merriment.
- A surname.
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Examples of "laughter" in Sentences
- The laughter isn't clearly John's.
- The statement was followed by uproarious laughter.
- Laughter improves the health and changes the attitude.
- Her laughter is a part of the context of the controversy.
- His laughter was said to resemble the call of the peewit.
- There was no laughter, no smiles, and rapt, silent attention.
- Is she perpetually on the verge of raucous, contagious laughter
- In the legend, the statement was followed by uproarious laughter.
- It is in the eyes and laughter and tears and frowns of my students.
- Laughter is anatomically caused by the epiglottis constricting the larynx.
- But I notice that you laugh and in your laughter is the wisdom of the ages.
- Its little internal jumps are, then, what we call laughter -- a thing you are well acquainted with.
- When all of the scores were averaged together, the word "laughter" ranked 8.5, while "terrorist" got a 1.3, for example.
- Other times, the laughter is a response to candidates being forced to answer a difficult question in 30 seconds on national television.
- British laughter is not the kind of laughter that the enemy likes, because it is the same laughter as that of old Elizabethan buccaneers.
- Those that are most merry and jovial are commonly, when they come to be in distress, most overwhelmed with heaviness and sorrow; their laughter is then turned into mourning.
- Your laughter is the laughter of Lord Haw Haw. 36% of young Muslims believe that a Muslim that converts to another faith should be punished by death and 15% openly admit that they admire Al Qaeda, as per Policy exchange. 45 % of British Muslims believe that 9.11 was an Israeli/American conspiracy.