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
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 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
"I haven't heard any one laugh down there, girls," called the guardian, presenting a smiling face to them.
From The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains by Janet Aldridge
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