cackle
verb (used without object)
to utter a shrill, broken sound or cry, as of a hen.
was cackling
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past progressiveof cackle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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But you heard it Friday, when Nationals General Manager Mike Rizzo made the Harper decision, knowing his Manager Davey Johnson was cackling with glee, probably pulling a muscle jumping for joy around his office.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2012
It was cackling and throaty and enthusiastic, like Aunty Ifeomas.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fayyaz was saying, but I was cackling by then, full-throated bursts of laughter spilling through my wired mouth.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
Miss Filberte was cackling and smiling on a settee, with a man whose figure presented a succession of curves, and who kept on softly patting his hands together and swaying gently backwards and forwards.
From The Woman with the Fan by Robert Smythe Hichens
The old woman was cackling sharply from the bottom of the stairs, and then bobbing in pursuit and calling on Donnegan to come back.
From Gunman's Reckoning by Max Brand
