cackle

Example Sentences

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“The sound of her humiliating cackle still haunts me,” Morticia tells her daughter, recounting the experience of her own mom, Hester, reading one of her earlier manuscripts and shaming her for it.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2025

He pauses: “It was ancestral spirits, whatever you want to call it,” adding with a mischievous cackle, “But not voodoo!”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

This invective is delivered with a sneer, a wink, and finally a cackle of laughter.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2025

“We come in here and all of our heads can look in like this and collaborate,” she said, adding with a kidlike cackle, “Isn’t it fun?”

From New York Times • May 2, 2024

Which makes me cackle at the kitchen table.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli