Example Sentences

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It unites the teller and those he is assured will laugh in complicity in its viciousness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

Many will laugh now, but in 2009, learning to pindrop was a young Angeleno’s rite of passage.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

Andrea covers her face when she leaves the house, because she worries people will laugh at her, two years after having cosmetic procedures.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2025

“And she’s Captain Ahab and she wants to get the big whale. She ain’t gonna get the big whale. She’ll go down. The big whale will laugh at her.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 14, 2023

Ever since that year, I have never been able to read out loud because I am still afraid people will laugh at me and call me stupid.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers