Sentence examples for stifled laughter from inspiring English sources

"stifled laughter" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to laughter that has been suppressed or restrained. For example, "The teacher tried to remain stern in the face of her students' stifled laughter."

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And stifled laughter, as everyone knows, leads to one thing: a crush.

Luckily, this was takeaway, so I didn't have to suffer stifled laughter from the next table.

"Excuse me, sorry," she said through stifled laughter, before giggling into silence for several seconds in the usually dry bulletin.

Even inside the ballroom, Mr. Trump's Catskills one-liners and discursive riffs prompted a mix of gasps, shaking heads and stifled laughter.

And suddenly we began exchanging several e-mails per workday — at first about apartment-related things, and then other kinds of e-mails, joke-telling e-mails, the kind that only lead to one thing: stifled laughter.

It is difficult to receive a tickle with a straight face, Beethoven notwithstanding, and six adults who adore Beethoven but also like kids, convulse in stifled laughter at the elf.

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A stifled laugh here.

Their silence isn't resonant; it's stifled, and stifling.

He remained stifled, shy.

The feeling of being stifled and anxious.

Iraq under Mr. Hussein had a stifled quality.

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