chortle

Example Sentences

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I’d scoff and chortle and avoid it, thinking that water was superfluous, extraneous, not something that would “make or break” whatever it was I was cooking.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2024

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, a new, more virile chortle has risen to take its place.

From Slate • Aug. 10, 2023

She starts laughing heartily, and her mirth becomes infectious, causing everyone she meets to giggle and chortle, too, including the white passengers on a train, her white employers and the Black congregants at her church.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2022

But the little one’s eyes opened wide, and she let out a chortle.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata