have cackled

• present perfect

  present perfect

  Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.

  of cackle.
  cackle

  verb (used without object)

  to utter a shrill, broken sound or cry, as of a hen.

Example Sentences

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have cackled

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

Dick and Ned were much excited by the new arrival, and so for that matter was Blossom; and Crazy Jane was like to have cackled her head off.

From Track's End Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There As Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full by Clifford Carleton

"Many geese have cackled and hissed both before and since; but none, like those, have clamored themselves into immortality."

From A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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