guffaw

Example Sentences

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But even now, the news will occasionally let you get off a chuckle or guffaw, even if it isn’t always from your better nature.

From Slate • Oct. 10, 2025

A full-body guffaw, followed by her pointing at the screen and saying, “I know exactly what he means.”

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2023

Farther on, standing before “Pay Nothing Until April,” an exceptional 2003 painting that I hadn’t seen before, I let out an involuntary guffaw.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2023

"If I make you my cornbread, you'll marry me," he declares with a resounding guffaw.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2022

The man in the gray suit laughed a guffaw of a laugh.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff