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Discover LudwigThe phrase "draw a laugh" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to cause someone to laugh or to elicit laughter. Example: During the presentation, the comedian's clever jokes and witty anecdotes never failed to draw a laugh from the audience.
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He was a pure entertainer, completely at ease with himself and willing to do anything to draw a laugh, no matter how foolish he looked or sounded.
At funerals and memorials, it is very good if you can tell one story that will draw a laugh or a smile or a titter.
Fans, turning the consummate spectator sport into a participatory one, offered opinions of all kinds — about which way the next putt would break, the nattiness of a golfer's attire or anything else that might draw a laugh.
Though it will surely draw a laugh from kids, it will give even more pleasure to parents who have been trying to make loudly the point that Smith's book makes softly: that the virtues of a book are independent of any bells, whistles or animation it might be made to contain.
"Back in the day, he could frustrate me, and I know he'd say the same thing about me," he said, appearing to draw a laugh from McCain's wife, Cindy McCain.
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One more time, he drew a laugh.
The remark drew a laugh.
"She had to," he said, which drew a laugh.
That drew a laugh from those around him.
"It doesn't explode," Barak said, drawing a laugh from his U.S. counterpart.
This drew a laugh from the audience, but Gonzaga knew what Marshall meant.
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