chuckle

"As he was coming off, I said to him 'great save Nigel Martyn' because Hitchy was a Leeds fan and he had a little chuckle to himself," says Bowsley.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

"The Man in the Red Bandana. He's become more famous than me, I don't like it," Trump said with a chuckle.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

In SpaceX’s case, Musk’s people at least laid out their $28.5 trillion “math,” and you could chuckle at how silly it was.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

You have to chuckle, at moments when you should be gasping.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

“Well, if I knew that, I wouldn’t do it, I suppose,” he said with a kind of chuckle.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Evans chuckles at the suggestion that today’s Dodgers are bad for the sport.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Award show producers seemed to scramble for hosts that didn’t already have a record of ruffling feathers and could, at the bare minimum, garner a few chuckles from the crowd.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

"With so many unanswered questions, gravity remains one of the most fascinating areas of research. It's a naturally attractive field," Gallardo chuckles.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

Alex McKechnie chuckles at the leap of faith he took when he packed up almost all his belongings in Glasgow and booked a one-way flight to Vancouver, Canada on 7 September 1974.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

He chuckles, then tears out the prescription, but knows better than to hand it to me.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Many of these listeners chuckled aloud when Mr. Sun, having led his quartet through a pent-up and mostly atonal original composition, “Hold Music,” explained its inspiration: a 90-minute ordeal on the phone with the IRS.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

When asked if she would run for president in the 2028 elections after being shown polling reflecting her popularity as a potential candidate, Ocasio-Cortez chuckled and tried to sidestep a direct answer.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Baker smiled widely, nodded his head, greeted Ortiz in Spanish, chuckled and walked over to Ortiz and Vladimir Guerrero, giving each of them hugs and pats on the back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Xi Jinping must have chuckled at the president’s professed outrage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Grandpa chuckled and said, “You’d better call Rowdy, or he’ll have to swim the river.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

“Because it was white, not because of his personality,” she said, chuckling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Soon the mordant Janice is chuckling to herself: “Now we’ve got ourselves a potboiler. A cheating husband. A mistress. A betrayed spouse.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

"Brother Wang was very important. He was number one," says Enrique, chuckling knowingly.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Many are asking “What happened to Lindsey Graham?,” but nobody is chuckling.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

The route led down into a wooded valley with a chuckling stream edged with brittle ice, which the path followed for perhaps half a mile before taking us steeply up into denser woods.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson