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
The old pig was grunting over his trough, the hens were cackling.
From 'Lizbeth of the Dale by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
They were cackling so that Unc' Billy was sure Farmer Brown's boy would soon hear them and hurry out to find out what the noise was all about.
From The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
There was a great stir, sure enough, in the hen-house,—fowls were cackling and screaming with fright, and a curious snapping sound came from one corner.
From Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad by Daphne Dale
