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
If “Strangelove” was a belly laugh, “Fail Safe” was a muffled cry.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2024
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
From somewhere down the corridor there came a loud belly laugh, and a loud voice called out, “Listen to the man talk.”
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
