cackle
verb (used without object)
to utter a shrill, broken sound or cry, as of a hen.
were 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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In no time at all, we were cackling like schoolkids on the playground of the mind, back-and-forthing lines from those Progressive Insurance commercials about turning into your parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2022
They passed a group of goblins who were cackling over a sack of gold that they had undoubtedly won betting on the match, and who seemed quite unperturbed by the trouble at the campsite.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
There they were cackling in their usual hugger-mugger Bedlamite, gin-palace, gruel-brained fashion, with Mr. J. at the head of them blowing a fan-fare upon his own cracked penny trumpet.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 by Various
The ground was covered by a sickly wild melon; and in the thick foliage of the trees the guinea-hens were cackling.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson
When Gervaise got back to the Rue de la Goutte-d'Or she found at the Boches' a number of women who were cackling in excited tones.
From L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
