chortle

Example Sentences

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“I am trying to say it publicly to make sure he sees it,” Rogen says with his trademark chortle.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025

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, a new, more virile chortle has risen to take its place.

From Slate • Aug. 10, 2023

He turned to his host and whispered something that made their master chortle and lick his lips ... though there was a hint of anger in those slitted yellow eyes, it seemed to Tyrion.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin