Sentence examples for instead of laughs from inspiring English sources

Instead of laughs, people will cheer.

Instead of laughs, the funeral air was thick with pieties about freedom.

When intended to draw blood instead of laughs, speaking truth to power doesn't lead to a secure retirement on the beach at Martha's Vineyard.

I realized then that I was crying instead of laughing.

But instead of laughing, the critics took them seriously.

Instead of laughing at him, you're just worried that he's going to hurt himself.

As a side note, shouldn't people who say lol instead of laughing, write it as lolol to describe laughing?

Instead of laughing this off as another example of his subject's dark humour, Sherry became haunted by the threat.

Instead of laughing, they dialed 911, wondering whether their bus had been hijacked by its own driver.

Sometimes, instead of laughing, they shook their heads with the same weary look in their eyes as Michel Martineau.

Instead of laughing, fining them, and telling them not to do it again, the system came down hard.