Sentence examples for smothered laughter from inspiring English sources

In Siegel's film, instead of sensual intimacy and resonant silences, there's a forthright ribaldry, a nearly slathering lust that possesses the women and that, in its frenzied excesses, he plays for smothered laughter.

She has the mischievous eyes and twinkling laughter of a good witch, and she leads us, the photographer and me, to a kitchen smothered in family photographs where she has baked us lemon and poppy-seed muffins.

Smothered by Invention.

Again, Michigan smothered him.

I almost got smothered.

He just got smothered.

The children smothered her.

Faulkner and Arnold, Smothered by Invention, 41.

Wait until their defense smothered.

The flame is smothered.

The sympathy seemed smothered.