cachinnation

Example Sentences

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Every episode of Friends is accompanied by the cachinnation of the dead.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2012

A vast deal of cachinnation ensues at his various predicaments in escaping these women, Hell-bent for matrimony.

From Time Magazine Archive

Clive laughed till he sank down; and Bob, flinging himself upon the ground in a perfect paroxysm, rolled over and over, and kicked, and yelled, and fairly howled in one prolonged and uproarious cachinnation.

From Among the Brigands by De Mille, James

The old man continued his hoarse cachinnation, ending by wiping his eyes on a washed-out ragged old print cotton handkerchief.

From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by Fenn, George Manville

He had actually to lie down on the greensward to enjoy his prolonged cachinnation.

From Life of Charles Darwin by Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas)