cackle

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025

“The sound of her humiliating cackle still haunts me,” Morticia tells her daughter, recounting the experience of her own mom, Hester, reading one of her earlier manuscripts and shaming her for it.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2025

The men heard a cackle in their headsets as the radio signal to Mission Control faltered and then failed.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

The barely audible cackle of candle kept me company in a stark warehouse room, a setting that felt illicit while the small flame’s fragility reminded me that I needed to make a decision.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2025

But out it ripped, a cackle of hah-hahs and haw-haws and hee-hee-hees.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman