Example Sentences

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In the film, her children laughingly remember their mother as a force of nature who made them aware of the needs of the broader world when their father was no longer there.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2024

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

From Washington Times • Dec. 24, 2023

He bakes bread and gives it away by the loaf! — that it verges, he acknowledged laughingly, on cliché.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 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

Ten Snow put down her work for a moment to beg, laughingly, along with everyone else.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich