chortle
Example Sentences
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I'll miss our chats and I'll miss catching him off guard and making him chortle.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
“I am trying to say it publicly to make sure he sees it,” Rogen says with his trademark chortle.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025
If Kate DiCamillo wrote a book about a box of Swiffer refills, it would probably make us chortle and sob about lint.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2023
Now, a new, more virile chortle has risen to take its place.
From Slate • Aug. 10, 2023
But a chortle escaped through my nose and made a snorting sound.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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