cackle

Manning’s press conference cackle was followed by the cackles of adults in the room, including reporters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

“I’m dipping nuggets you’ve never heard of into sources you could never understand,” she declares bluntly, causing us to cackle out of sheer surprise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

In a two-storey flagship laboratory in one of the many new business hubs in Chongqing, a group of kindergarten children cackle with delight as they watch a robot fish swim around the tank.

From BBC ● May 12, 2026

If you don't know her, you're likely to know her famous cackle which has become her trademark.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025

“No children that you know of,” I said, then let out a cackle loud enough to drown out the sound of her ankle bells.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

The potent Met chorus captured the shrieking cackles of the witches, the horror of the courtiers after Duncan’s murder, and the despair of the exiles fleeing Macbeth’s tyranny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The red-headed fairy cackles, “Your hard work didn’t pay off!”

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025

All week I’d reveled in the cackles of leaf monkeys, hoots of gibbons, and barks of macaques, plus choruses of birds and frogs—all backed by the hums and whines of insects.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024

As we turn the corner into his office, the cheekily self-proclaimed “horror master” cackles at the sight that greets all who dare to enter: a life-size cardboard cut-out of “Believe”-era Justin Bieber.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2023

Alone in the village, all is quiet except for the muffled grunts of pigs and cackles of chicken.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

A troupe of local performers enacted boxing and wrestling matches as the crowd cackled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

I laid on the couch and cackled like an idiot while my friends took no prisoners.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2025

And they cackled with glee watching the drama in Georgia.

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2024

His allergies were awful, the cows circling around him while he got uncomfortable and his mom cackled in their ATV.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2022

At first she cackled softly and ran at the indistinct shadows of barrels and wheelbarrows, pretending they were monsters rearing out of the mist, but she was too accustomed to caution to dally for long.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

I can practically hear those two cackling over their macchiatos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

Those stereotypes might bring to mind images of black hats, broomsticks and cackling over cauldrons, common in much media.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025

And if you can be cackling laughing without a full set twirling in automation, that proves that the bones of the play are solid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025

Squibb has played plenty of cackling grannies; even so, Ms. Sturak is her most unhinged.

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

I thought I was imagining it when I heard the cackling, but then I looked at Amaka—and sure enough, she was laughing.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie