Sentence examples for relieved laughter from inspiring English sources

"Well, I think I'll pack it in," Mr. Maude-Roxby said, triggering relieved laughter.

P: I...I was relieved (laughter).

An appalled silence falls over the table, until one friend decides Jack is joking and the rest join him in relieved laughter.

Cutting through his wife's words he answered fluently that it was when Comic Relief "made me count every penny of the day's takings when I was Chancellor of the Exchequer", before going on – amid spontaneous and relieved laughter – to ask the woman the same question and to praise with evident sincerity all those who volunteered and collected for charity.

A voice from the back of the stalls shouts: "Thank you!" Go to Alexi Kaye Campbell's 2008 drama to see a play that makes an exceptional connection with its audience: there were not just murmurs of recognition but ripples of relieved laughter.

One morning at 7 a.m., after we had spent the night working on a grant application, Alan asked me: "Would you like to call your husband and tell him you are late?" We burst together into a relieving laughter.

Seconds later the final whistle blew, Bernardez' relieved smile and laughter said it all.

It is precisely this element of tension between the tickles that is relieved in the laughter accompanying the squirm.

"If you've felt I haven't been here enough, I ask you to please give me a break: I have a full-time day job," Mr. Giuliani said to a sweep of laughter and relieved applause.

Even the most anarchic, apparently plotless story -- the Marx Brothers' movies or Douglas Adams's books, for example, or Beckett's plays -- uses the reader or audience's expectations of causal relationships to create a tension that relieved only in absurd laughter.

Soon, "His Holiness burst into laughter, relieving all the tension," Mr. Vreeland said.