laugh down
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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He added: "It's such a good laugh down here, with good people. They all look after each other."
From BBC • Nov. 27, 2024
“I’ve had a few whoppers of experiences recently,” Pugh says, breaking into a throaty laugh down the phone.
From The Guardian • Dec. 28, 2017
I tried to squeeze the rest of my laugh down.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
She leaned forward as she spoke, and the bay broke into a gallop, while Dixie sent a laugh down the wind.
From Bat Wing Bowles by Coolidge, Dane
The object of this romance was to laugh down the romances of chivalry of the Middle Ages.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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