Sentence examples for affect a laugh from inspiring English sources
"Do you know if Keegan Bradley is named after Kevin?" Other readers may affect a laugh, but it was the first thing that came into all our minds, wasn't it.
ITV1's Planespotting, based on another recent true story, didn't quite know whether to consistently play it for laughs or affect a certain po-facedness, but eventually settled for taking the mick out of the Greeks and, obviously, the British planespotters arrested for spying whose story briefly knocked the war in Afghanistan off the tabloid front pages.
"People worry about laughing and this can affect a whole company.
He is nervy and needy by turns as he talks, as arch and confessional as his songs, now reliving his recent near-death experiences with drugs, now affecting a demonic camp laugh about his love life.
The group is rounded out by a trio of readers: a mature fellow named Ananias, a young woman named Babel or Belle with "laughing black eyes" who affects a "Ulysses Museum T-shirtt, and a fusty old Critic.
As William Hazlitt wrote, "We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to see ourselves whether there is any truth in them". But maybe one way to avoid becoming taken in by a charlatan is to avoid acting like one.
Lagarde affects a blank expression of innocence, and starts to laugh.
He began to hate her and the way she affected an American accent and laughed in a high-pitched shatter of tinnitus-inducing screeches.
No changes in cognition or personality were apparent, but a pseudobulbar affect with easy laughing was present.
As long as it's funny, and doesn't affect anyone personally, laugh.
