laugh away

Example Sentences

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Which is why we should treasure love stories and laugh away people who call them useless or silly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

With song lyrics like, “Let’s have a passive-aggressive Christmas, because we’re all stuck here till we’re free,” it’s sure to help us all laugh away some of the challenges going into this season.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2021

“There are plenty of movies that do one or the other — that make us laugh away our troubles or that make us face our troubles — but there aren’t very many that do both.”

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2020

Even among those regal beagles, I have to laugh away.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 30, 2015

There were many sharp sallies from the crowd, for the New Englander is keen of wit, but the auctioneer ever had a ready rejoinder that turned the laugh away from himself, without causing ill-feeling.

From A Modern Wizard by Ottolengui, Rodrigues