chortle
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I'll miss our chats and I'll miss catching him off guard and making him chortle.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
If Kate DiCamillo wrote a book about a box of Swiffer refills, it would probably make us chortle and sob about lint.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
Now, Israelis and others in the Middle East need to worry—or chortle over—his intentions there as well.
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2023
The rest of us will be content to drool at each of Bertha's fabulous dresses or chortle at Agnes' quick comebacks.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2022
Nyame breaks into a sarcastic chortle at his own joke.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
He chortles as Thoreau gets sick over a quahog.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Ken interjects in a flash, to chortles around the table.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2024
“What’s that shiny ring you got there? … Well, OK, I’m not gonna take it from you. That seems really precious to you,” he says as the audience chortles.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
As Christmas chortles atop an all-terrain vehicle while wielding a .50 caliber weapon, it looks like the whole thing could have been shot with rear projection, the green-screen work is so shoddy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
“No, no, my boy, I’m joking—obviously,” he chortles, leaning over to pat my hand.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
“I mean it is,” Ms Barrymore said, and they chortled.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2021
Right now, the general feeling toward Pence among Trump allies is sympathy, said one Republican in frequent touch with the White House, who chortled and said, “Poor guy.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2021
“You should have heard yourself,” he chortled back at me, “you said ‘What country friends is this?’ in a thick South African accent!”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2020
It’s something of an inside joke and every time he punched the line, everyone chortled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
They chortled delightedly to themselves while I tried to come up with a different song to sing.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
“OK, I think I can,” he relents, before chortling and adding: “I seriously don’t want to.”
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2024
Soon enough, I was chortling right alongside him.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2023
Rogers, for her part, is chortling all the way to her campaign treasurer’s office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
Jesters on social media have already begun chortling about this movie’s minimalist title.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
Once she got busy with that, she stopped squawking and started making her little chortling noises again.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
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