titter

The crowd began to titter as Newman shaded his eyes, pretending to look into the stands for a challenger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2023

The score, by Amelia Warner, announces when to titter and when to swoon.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022

By the time the first half of the film had been unfolded yesterday the spectators were beginning to titter gently.

From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2019

There was a titter from the audience when the two leaders were asked what punishment they deemed suitable for lying during political campaigns.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2019

There was a titter and soon great rolling whoops of laughter deafened him.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

In the Netflix film, Swan demonstrates with calipers on a life-size, anatomically correct male baby doll in a coffee shop to the nervous titters of the participants.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026

The upper keys were pressed to combine different types of laughter, from titters to belly laughs, and the foot pedals controlled the timing and duration of the laughter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

The titters would feel dismissive, except that they also fit the tone’s grand-scale terror.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025

"And there was understandably a lot of titters, laughter and giggles - but it's starting to feel like a tangible thing that could actually come to fruition."

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025

James joined in the renewed titters, but the tips of his ears looked suddenly sunburned.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

The point was that Bush lacked “moral courage,” Mr. Trudeau explained defensively, though more than a few readers must have tittered at the cruelty of his word choice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

They had traveled some 60 miles from Moscow just to see his latest work, and they tittered at the encounter.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2022

But titter not, lest you be tittered, it’s back tomorrow and the cold turkey will be brief.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2021

The room tittered nervously at first from the privacy of this revelation.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2018

"An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach, who scrunched up her shoulders and tittered behind a plump hand.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

SAN FRANCISCO—Alex Sorenson and Lizzie Silvers were about to tie the knot at an outdoor ceremony when a group of tipsy young men stumbled in out of the gloom, tittering at discovering nuptials in progress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

But I’ll admit the shtick often had me tittering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2022

Miller’s apparent faux pas briefly brought tittering over a practical solution back into vogue.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2022

His run for president, announced two days earlier, came with an overnight makeover that had the City Hall press corps tittering: fresh navy sneakers, de-fuzzed sideburns, pants that fit.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2019

“But Mullah Fatiullah Khan seems nice,” I managed between bursts of tittering.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini