Example Sentences

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The worker laughingly asked, “Are you a robot?”

From Washington Times • Dec. 24, 2023

Yancey laughingly calls them his workers, here to do a job.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2023

Diners were laughingly interrogated, then led to a makeshift prison and asked to sing a patriotic song before being returned to their table.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023

“Butterflies” was her first national television placement: Its bouncy chorus was used in commercials for what she laughingly calls “feminine products.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2023

For by now there were eighty Dutchmen—elderly women and middle-aged men along with our teenagers—working in “God’s underground” as we sometimes laughingly called ourselves.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom