Sentence examples for caused laughter from inspiring English sources

He told them he was only catching his breath, which caused laughter.

The judge, Mr Justice Saunders, caused laughter to break out when he quipped "interesting titles – 'royal pastry'!" as he flicked through one of them.

In 1961 a survey carried out among American children aged eight to 15 made the researchers conclude that the mortification, discomfort, or hoaxing of others readily caused laughter, but witty or funny remarks often passed unnoticed.

The sound of the impact caused laughter, I recall, but the bleeding sent my pals running to their tree forts and left me alone in the middle of someone's yard walking in circles, temporarily blind.

And Whitney accepts the challenge of too much energy, A short while ago, she caused laughter on the sidelines when she paused mid-game for instructions.

The judge in the case caused laughter in the court when, referring to Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge, he asked Whistler "Which part of the picture is the bridge?"; the case ended with Whistler awarded token damages of one farthing.

In Francis Bacon's list of what causes laughter, the first place is again given to deformity.

Immanuel Kant realized that what causes laughter is "the sudden transformation of a tense expectation into nothing".

☟ A. E. Bassinette, in his pamphlet "What Is Humor — A Joke?," claims to have discovered a small tropical fly which causes laughter.

I have worked my way, with mounting pleasure and awe, through almost all of Melvin Burgess Nicholas Danee, The Hit, Junk, Doing It – all causing laughter, enlightenment and harrowings of the soul by turns).

The list is not exhaustive, but it does show how widely Hobbes tosses his nets: "passions" include everything from ephemeral states (e.g., "sudden glory" causing laughter), to moods (e.g., confidence and diffidence), to character traits and dispositions (e.g., good nature, covetousness and impudence).