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Meanings of suppressed laughter in English

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Usage of suppressed laughter in English
1
Martin almost died of it, and Howard was weak from suppressed laughter.
Who Cares? A Story of Adolescence
2
I returned somewhat composed, but still under the domination of suppressed laughter.
My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
3
Levina vanished down the stairs, but her suppressed laughter was quite audible.
Earl Hubert's Daughter / The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of ...
4
The Callaghan girl made an extraordinarily loud snorting noise of incompetently- suppressed laughter.
Lucky Jim
5
He shook with scarcely suppressed laughter, but Allison ignored his senseless mirth.
Then I'll Come Back to You
6
The faces of the four girls were crimson with suppressed laughter.
The Motor Maids in Fair Japan
7
The silence here of the young people was positively electric with suppressed laughter.
Young Lives
8
Kongstrup began his suppressed laughter again, and Lasse blinked in distress at it.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01
9
Ty heard himself let out a little snort of suppressed laughter.
Seveneves
10
Rose turned a countenance rippling with suppressed laughter on her companion.
Robert Elsmere
11
Her shoulders are shaking with suppressed laughter or anger or something.
The Rhesus Chart
12
He didn't notice the deliberately exaggerated and suppressed laughter of a few boys.
The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein
13
Close to these stand a group of young girls, convulsed with half- suppressed laughter.
Russia
14
I sat there, seizures of suppressed laughter trembling through my gut.
John Dies at the End
15
Sarah put her face in her hands and bent double with suppressed laughter.
The Big U
16
Then suppressed laughter and the gurgling of the flowing enlivener.
The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
This collocation consists of:
Suppressed laughter through the time
Suppressed laughter across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common