Sentence examples for single laugh from inspiring English sources

Again, not a single laugh.

Once in Wolverhampton, he said, he did 12 shows without a single laugh.

In the 79 minutes that follow, I fail to raise a single laugh out of him.

As it turned out the funny-looking chap was Rowan Atkinson - he got every single laugh in the summer show.

(I defy anyone to find a single laugh in this harrowing tale of a bourgeois Austrian family terrorised by two sadistic youths).

There were disastrous nights when the compere couldn't get his name right – "ladies and gentlemen, Omad Darjeeling!" — and where he didn't get a single laugh.

"It's easier to count the ones who are not single," laughs Engstrøm, thinking about the building.

"My boyfriend told me to say, 'If anyone asks, you're single!'" laughs the new soul sensation Lianne La Havas.

Beth's open mouth issued a single, shocked laugh.

At one point, I interject a tentative reference to Eastern philosophies, but Freddie pooh-poohs them with Hegelian vehemence, dismissing Taoism, Confucianism, Hinduism, and Buddhism in a single barking laugh.

Just as a fighter must believe, when he steps in the ring, that he is going to win by a knockout, a comedian has to believe, however improbably, that he is going to make every single person laugh.