belly laugh

Example Sentences

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His older sister, Averie, was a protector who “beat up everybody for me from age 3 to like 15,” Domingo says, letting out an extended belly laugh.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Reportedly, she was asked to sing her hit “Firework,” which, considering her proximity to some of the most combustible substances in existence, might have tested God’s urge for a belly laugh.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2025

The Legion, of course, riffs off of DC Comics’ Legion of Doom, complete with the Riddler and Gorilla Grodd wearing the famed dictator’s moustache, a scene more than worth a belly laugh.

From Washington Times • Apr. 5, 2023

But once my 7-year-old lets out a belly laugh, the laughter floodgates are opened and her two sisters double over as well.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2023

Miss Josephine stopped what she was doing long enough to let out a sad, pitying belly laugh.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older