cackle
verb (used without object)
to utter a shrill, broken sound or cry, as of a hen.
have cackled
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present perfectof cackle.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Even the “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase would have cackled at the swindle.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2018
Ma Charles, on the other hand, would have cackled and shaken her tambourine.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
When the geese have cackled they will be still again.
From Uncle Vanya by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Then, long after, when all my cackling geese have cackled into bed again, I go up to the roof and across into the next house.
From "Persons Unknown" by Virginia Tracy
It is so very humiliating to find out that your swan, about whom you have cackled so proudly, turns out to be only an ordinary, domestic, farm-yard bird after all.
From The Head Girl at the Gables by Angela Brazil
