Sentence examples for laugh down from inspiring English sources

The ex-presidents of the Elks laugh down at him.

He recalls trying to book Eddie Izzard's 2003 Sexie show: "I'd call up the venues and they'd laugh down the phone – they'd say, 'You're not serious.' No one had tried it before, but Eddie wanted to push the boundaries".

The director, Andy Tennant, wants viewers to laugh down their noses at Alabama mores (bring on the deep-fried gags), yet he also wishes to make it perfectly clear that he holds the Yankee gods of money and modishness in righteous contempt.

"(In) high school, I used to laugh down the hall and hear the echo coming, you know...

Another life form curved into sight down the street: a girl laughing down at her gloveless fingers which were texting on some hand-held device.

A few were cruel, but, in that weird world where anonymity encourages false bravado, they were mostly laughed down by their peers.

"I know The Rolling Stones have said that we'd never asked them to play before, but the truth is I'd been trying to book them for years," he laughed down a phone line from Worthy Farm.

Let's get into your new album, Laughing Down Crying.

Well, best of luck with your new album, Laughing Down Crying.

Hampshire found it "good value", his only problem having been reading "the rather flowery prose without being laughed down by the players".

Today, I imagine him laughing down at the rest of us, as his vision is on the verge of finally being realized.