A soft partly suppressed laugh.
Laugh quietly or with restraint.
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Examples for "laugh softly "
Examples for "laugh softly "
1 She began to laugh softly , uncannily, in a way that tore my heart.
2 Then I bent close and let her hear me laugh softly .
3 Mrs. Marston relaxed her dignity so far as to laugh softly .
4 He laughed softly as he lay in the bottom of the boat.
5 Brooks laughed softly from his place in front of the open fire.
1 We shared a chuckle, even if hers was a lifeless, empty chortle .
2 The girls never said what it meant. The tattooist gave a chortle .
3 As he revealed more teeth and began to chortle , his eyes widened.
4 We're going to load some bees! He lets out a little chortle .
5 To her right, Polish president Lech Kaczynski allowed himself a chortle of schadenfreude.
6 He also found time to chortle at the current ruling party:
7 The convention on the landing understood every chortle in a truly marvellous way.
8 Now and then I managed to coax forth a gaseous chortle or two.
9 If you do, I'll play you something that'll make you chortle . '
10 There is a sound that is somewhere between a chortle and a laugh.
11 Joe - would chortle at the average Twitter bot's lame attempts at camouflage.
12 He had quite a chortle at the way Louise took to you at dinner.
13 Larius laughed suddenly- aquiet , confident chortle deep in his throat.
14 I bit back a chortle ; they'd be there awhile.
15 Rawlins began to chortle , still working on his puzzle.
16 His hand engulfed mine as he continued to chortle .
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