Example Sentences
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One broadcaster from Norway, amid peals of laughter, described the chief ice technician as "scooting" down the sheet.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
Far from the subtlety required before a camera, her powerful voice and exaggerated gestures fill the space -- and draw peals of laughter.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
Her youthful peals of laughter notwithstanding, McDermott is a veteran novelist, and the generational divide she mines in “Absolution,” a novel that one advance reviewer has called “her masterpiece,” is dead-serious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
She applauded a third for his decision to tuck in his shirt onstage, which created peals of laughter.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
He heard loud, wild peals of derisive laughter crashing all about him and caught blurred glimpses of wicked, beery faces smirking far back inside the bushes and high overhead in the foliage of the trees.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
