Example Sentences
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A troupe of local performers enacted boxing and wrestling matches as the crowd cackled.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026
I laid on the couch and cackled like an idiot while my friends took no prisoners.
From Slate • Jun. 26, 2025
His allergies were awful, the cows circling around him while he got uncomfortable and his mom cackled in their ATV.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2022
When I told her tickets cost 20 bucks, she actually cackled.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2022
The old man cackled and coughed and hacked up a glob of phlegm that he spit into the sand too near my feet for comfort “Must’ve been some party.”
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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