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, Israelis and others in the Middle East need to worry—or chortle over—his intentions there as well.

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2023

“I mean, missteps is an understatement,” Debbie Harry said with a chortle.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2022

But a chortle escaped through my nose and made a snorting sound.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini