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Example sentences for "laughed"

Lexicographically close words:
laufull; laugh; laughable; laughably; laughe; laughen; laughers; laugheth; laughing; laughingly
  1. Cora saw the frown and laughed merrily as Walter slipped into the seat beside her.

  2. Then he laughed aloud at his worriment and his prospective precautions.

  3. He laughed at the figure he presented, but there was a serious look upon his handsome face.

  4. She spun and she laughed a-spinning The blood of my veins in a skein; But I knew how the charm was mastered, And snapped in the hissing vein; So she wove but a fiery scorpion That writhed from her hands again.

  5. The "stalk" would not do; and Hans and Arend were now sneered and laughed at by Hendrik and Groot Willem.

  6. And he was not permitted to forget his accident so easily, for although Hendrik had forborne to give him further chagrin, yet Hans and Arend did not deal so delicately with him, but both laughed heartily at his unfortunate tumble.

  7. Of course lions were the subject of conversation, and all laughed again and again whenever they thought of Congo and his encounter.

  8. He almost laughed at the odd situation he found himself in.

  9. He had laughed heartily at Hans and Arend.

  10. Groot Willem felt considerably chagrined at the result, and got well laughed at by both Hans and Arend; but what annoyed him still more was a word or two uttered by the rival hunter.

  11. They laughed and talked and splashed the water with their paddles.

  12. The old Indians who were looking on sat and laughed at the others.

  13. He laughed and thanked me, and said he would take my advice.

  14. When we next met, Ralph discovered the trick we had played, and Osborne was laughed at.

  15. Laying back in the tonneau he laughed till he shook.

  16. Legree, far from showing any consternation, leaned against the wall of the building and laughed softly.

  17. The man in front laughed hoarsely as he asked the question.

  18. Edward laughed bitterly, and drew a paper from his breast.

  19. He laughed as the newcomers entered, thinking that two of his boon companions had returned to finish a flagon.

  20. But Badding laughed loudly, dashing the saltwater from his eyes and hair.

  21. Nigel laughed with sheer joy as he looked at him.

  22. The King, his knights, and even the archers in the waist below them, laughed at the merry lilt and joined lustily in the chorus, while the men of the neighboring ships leaned over the side to hearken to the deep chant rolling over the waters.

  23. At last, at a suggestion from the Squire, he leaned back in his chair and laughed long and loudly in his bushy beard, while the Lady Ermyntrude glared her black displeasure at such plebeian merriment.

  24. King, and the knights laughed joyously as they drank.

  25. Nigel laughed as Aylward rolled out this prodigious title.

  26. The cottagers came from their huts and laughed and clapped as the rich full voice swelled and sank to the cheery tinkling of the strings.

  27. The King laughed as he turned to Walter Manny.

  28. With him they rode nearly as far as Bletchingley, and Nigel laughed much to hear him talk; but always under the raillery there was much earnestness and much wisdom in all his words.

  29. Edward laughed again as he looked round at the gleaming eyes, the waving arms and the flushed joyful faces of his liegemen.

  30. The King laughed at the mischance and rode on.

  31. Dora clasped her mother in her arms and laughed and wept by turns, and then threw herself into Dick's embrace.

  32. Dick; and then all laughed heartily over an affair that I have already described in detail in "The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle.

  33. And he backed away with all possible haste, while some of the students poked each other in the ribs and some laughed outright.

  34. We laughed too at the falsehood of others, who after having done her all the injury in their power ever since her arrival, lavished upon her all kinds of flatteries, and boasted of their affection for her and of zeal in her cause.

  35. She resisted some time, saying that Madame de Maintenon was going; but the Marechale laughed at her for believing that her patron could see who was and who was not at the chapel: so down they sat to play.

  36. Madame de Maintenon laughed at them, and Madame des Ursins, of whom they were old friends, soon showed them that she did not mean to abate one jot of her power.

  37. Several times when with me she has expressed her astonishment; and with me has laughed at many people, often of much consideration, whom she scarcely knew, or who had been strongly opposed to her, and who basely crouched at her feet.

  38. Madame des Ursins accordingly laughed at and despised him.

  39. The Marechale laughed most heartily at so complete an adventure.

  40. On the morrow she sulked, and was more than ever laughed at for her pains.

  41. Fieubet only laughed at him; and upon arriving at Saint Germain told the adventure to everybody he met.

  42. People laughed much at this, and these words were a standing reproach to the soft-spoken Abbe.

  43. Here she checked herself, for her habitually decorous master stood before her in his night shirt, barefooted, and laughed loud and merrily, clapping himself boisterously on his wasted ribs and on the shrunken thighs that carried his thin body.

  44. The doctor only laughed and said "One day he will learn for himself what his father meant, and if you wish to buy him cherries, you good old soul, take him along with you and pick out the finest.

  45. Despite this reply Herr Ueberhell only laughed and continued the inquisition gaily.

  46. Melchior laughed at her but did not rebuff her.

  47. The whole company laughed and clapped their hands.

  48. She followed Coué's remarks with keen interest, answered his questions vivaciously, and laughed very heartily at the amusing incidents with which the proceedings were interspersed.

  49. I discovered there wasn't a knee, I laughed again, as did those who saw me hobble into your room; but I laughed this time from a sense of bewildered surprise and dawning belief.

  50. Mrs. Frere laughed at this quaint way of putting it.

  51. Helena could not bear to be laughed at, and Willie was terribly afraid of being thought "soft" by a real schoolboy like Hugh.

  52. Just wait until next winter, young lady, then you'll see how quickly they will disappear," laughed mother.

  53. But I shan't tell him," laughed Adelaide.

  54. I hope when I put up 'pickled onions' I don't cry," laughed Adelaide.

  55. Philip laughed heartily, for the first time since his mother's death.

  56. Mason, still clasping his inanimate burden, laughed with a snarl.

  57. The magistrate himself laughed at this sally.

  58. But Grenier laughed a hollow and unconvincing laugh; nevertheless, it was a sign of recovery.

  59. Why my friend laughed so heartily at my adventure I never could comprehend, and have always avoided asking him the question.

  60. They had all laughed but one, a celebrated prig, who had kept his mouth pursed and his eyes on the ground.

  61. At first, I thought he was in jest, and laughed too; then, being sleepy and maudlin, I remonstrated.

  62. Yet the wife had not even looked sad--had only scolded and laughed at him.

  63. The child seemed to have formed a close friendship with the soldier, for, although the latter was refusing her something, the little girl laughed gaily.

  64. She might have been lively and laughed with us!

  65. Yet Nicolas laughed loudly, as he perceived the queer objects in the top of the elm, and pointing upward, said: "What kind of fruits are hanging there?

  66. Nicolas laughed at the bundle he carried under his arm, but Georg said: "You haven't yet looked want in the face, Junker.

  67. He had treated Herr Matanesse Van Wibisma rudely on account of his opinions, but sought to approach her, who laughed at what he prized most highly, because she was a woman, and it was sweet to hear his work praised by beautiful lips.

  68. What the abbe related and her aunt laughed at, what the Italian screamed and Monseigneur smilingly condemned with a slight shake of the head, was so shamelessly bold that she would have been defiled by repeating the words.

  69. While Henrica rather laughed than spoke these words, her name was called for the third time by a shrill female voice.

  70. Russians already told of the village blacksmith who laughed when he was shown a French horseshoe which had been found on the road, and said: "Not one of these horses will leave Russia if the army remains till frost sets in!

  71. When they first took to woman's clothes or shoes or hats it was considered an amusement, a joke, but very soon a mantilla, a soutane, a veil became a precious object and nobody laughed at it when frozen members were wrapped in these garments.

  72. He adds that he fears he will be laughed at for reporting so mad a story.

  73. Worldly Wiseman would have laughed and gone his way; let us be glad that Burns was better counselled by his heart.

  74. SONG Love planted my rose in his garden fair-- My rose of heart's delight-- And he laughed with joy when he saw it bear A crown of blossoms bright.

  75. Yes, the devil, the Black Devil," laughed the voice in the window.

  76. To me it seems that Lord Farquhart asks but little from his future lady," laughed the crony.

  77. And then a tiny imp with immature horns and a budding tail whispered something in her ear, and she laughed again, and again there was no melody in the sound.

  78. She laughed merrily, and with a sweeping courtesy ushered her mother out of the room.

  79. She chattered away merrily, laughed at his weighty jokes and his more or less pointless stories, and even forgot to be angry when for one brief, fleeting instant his massive hand closed over her slim, aristocratic one.

  80. London would have laughed at them in immediate derision.

  81. He laughed to himself, for he perceived at once that she had taken the wrong road and was spurring to get back to the fork before he should have passed.

  82. Have a care, my good Cecil," laughed Farquhart.

  83. Nancy laughed merrily as at some droll recollection, "Phil, that was a whole year ago.

  84. Farquhart threw back his head and laughed long and loud.

  85. Not quite so bad as that," laughed Foster.

  86. Will Phelps already had acquired a keen dislike for the man, and he had laughed heartily when Mott one night had declared that the student body had been compelled to give Professor Hanson the new name he had received.

  87. He'll have to learn some things, if not others," laughed Will.

  88. Hawley laughed loudly this time as he replied, "You're 'a very Daniel come to judgment.

  89. I rather guess it will," laughed his classmate cordially.

  90. When Foster laughed as he told of Splinter's description of his marvelously increased corpulence, Will did not join, for the ludicrous side now was all swallowed up in his anger.

  91. Foster Bennett laughed and both boys entered their room to prepare for dinner.

  92. Maybe more than that if I don't pass in all my work," laughed Will.

  93. Again Hawley laughed and closed one eye as he spoke.

  94. On his fob Will wore the gold medal he had won the preceding June, but he laughed and made no reply to Mott's question, fearful of incurring further ridicule if he should display the trophy.

  95. You'll be sorry for it," laughed Mott, as he and Peter John turned toward the latter's room.

  96. You must be a 'shark' Phelps," laughed Mott.

  97. But possibly they are neither to be pitied nor laughed at; they may be plunging thus into a saving hell.

  98. When she arrived it was with such a glad heart that, at sight of Francis in her father's Sunday clothes, she laughed so merrily that her mother said 'The lassie maun be fey!

  99. Kirsty laughed with a scorn none the less clear that it was quiet.

  100. Julius laughed scornfully, but the squire took him up very short.

  101. And as he spoke he laughed hysterically, and took Julius into an inner room.

  102. She sat by the lamp, pleasantly conscious of the amusement she was giving; and, considering that she had already laughed the circumstance out in her room, quite as well entertained as any of the party.

  103. He laughed all over when Joe went in with the bags, and told him to set them down in a corner, and asked him if he would have some breakfast.

  104. With that the old man laughed again, and told Joe to sit down; and then he asked him what he thought made him take so much trouble seeking bits of stone on the fells, if he could get what he wanted on the road-side.

  105. During these remarks Josh Thatcher, who was sitting in the front row, gave sundry digs in the ribs to his cousin Tom, and they both laughed aloud.

  106. It was impossible to resist the impulse to laugh as this national jig brought up the rear, and Sam was much displeased that the foreigners on board, and there were many, should have laughed at his country.

  107. When our common people laughed at the Emperor in his uniforms, they showed the same sound sense that appears in 'Yang Kee.

  108. I'll help it by helping you," laughed Cleary.

  109. His neighbor laughed too, then another and then another, until the whole native multitude was laughing.

  110. The flashily dressed young man sitting at Webb's side laughed and slapped him familiarly on the knee.

  111. She laughed softly and twisted her hands nervously in her lap.

  112. Dun can met his wife's glance and laughed out impulsively.

  113. Well, I reckon you do feel kinder empty," laughed the farmer as he sprang out of bed.

  114. She stood by his side and laughed like a child amused with a new toy when he took her place at the cow, and with the pail between his knees and using both hands, began to milk rapidly.

  115. Dry up," laughed the auctioneer, and he playfully jerked off the old man's hat and laid it in the latter's lap.

  116. In one corner of it he had once started to grow some flowers, but his neighbors had laughed at his attempt so much that he allowed the bulbs to die and be uprooted by his chickens.

  117. Then the two men laughed together heartily and parted.

  118. Abner Calihan laughed slowly and put his arm around his daughter, and together they went toward the steps of the kitchen door.

  119. I told him I heard he had been sick, and he laughed and said he could do more work than ten ordinary darkies.

  120. Well, we are much obleeged to you," said Wade, awkwardly; and he laughed a laugh that went little farther than his mask.

  121. She laughed childishly as she walked back to the cabin by his side.

  122. She laughed with him, but she did not understand his banter, and preceded him into the kitchen.

  123. He had told Henry secrets that he had confided to no other human being, and they had laughed and cried together over certain adventures and sorrows.

  124. I do like," he said, and he laughed again.

  125. She understood, somehow, that, though the black look passed away from his face, and he laughed and made them laugh, there was a thing that was never quite out of his mind.

  126. But though he had laughed his short laugh, John Holt had made her lift up her head.

  127. She found out in time that he often laughed that short half-laugh when he was moved by something.

  128. Little Ben looked and ate and laughed as if the lemonade had gone to his head.


  129. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laughed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    laughed again; laughed aloud; laughed heartily; laughed softly; laughed the