Example Sentences

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Tittering from the class, but mostly awkward silence.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

Tittering country girls see me as I go past from where they sit in the pews, and through the open door comes the loud psalm and the fervent solitary voice of the preacher. 

From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

There is incessant vulgar Giggling and Tittering, and 5 meals a Day, Becky says. 

From Two Suffolk Friends by Groome, Francis Hindes

Tittering came from the sides now, also some applause.

From The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

But, lord, old dame, so spins the whizzing world, A humming-top, ay, for the little boy-gods Flogging it well with their smart little rods, Tittering at time and the coil uncurled.

From John Marr and Other Poems by Melville, Herman