chortle

Example Sentences

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I’d scoff and chortle and avoid it, thinking that water was superfluous, extraneous, not something that would “make or break” whatever it was I was cooking.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2024

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, Israelis and others in the Middle East need to worry—or chortle over—his intentions there as well.

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2023

It made me titter, chortle and howl — all the different genres of laughter.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2021

Though we talked quietly, the waitress heard, and her high chortle was quickly muffled in the kitchen.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin