Sentence examples for suppress laughter from inspiring English sources

The episode, from season one, was called "Office Olympics" and had the Bagger making funny noises to suppress laughter.

And Andrew M. Cuomo, the Democratic candidate and the race's front-runner, at times struggled to suppress laughter.

There were a few claps, but mostly silence – or, if my experience in the room was the norm, a colossal struggle to suppress laughter.

Billy, who probably should be our nation's ambassador to the U.N., where ability to suppress laughter is a vital asset, said, "Next time think one-two-three-four.

He re-auditions and attempts to give a more masculine performance, but they are unable to suppress laughter at his acting.

I could swear the cop was trying to suppress laughter when he asked, "Are you sure you're missing a chicken?" Then, gesturing with his flashlight, he asked me to open the egg-box hatch so he could look up in the rafters of the coop.

I suppressed laughter, obvious disbelief: Wait until Billy and Jaime hear about this!

The test of melodramatic power is when audiences have trouble suppressing laughter at inappropriate moments; its virtue is its wondrous absurdity.

In her scene pointing out this appalling tic at a dinner party, Louis-Dreyfus is very funny, with all of Elaine's satirically wide-eyed astonishment and incredulity and theatrically suppressed laughter, but with a new undertow of sadness.

He does a shot of fresh breast milk, she brings milk and cookies for his friends to their barely disguised disgust, he feeds and he comes out with a face covered in milk, to the disgust of the characters (and the barely suppressed laughter of the actors).

I burst into barely suppressed laughter, which was not permitted at Parris Island lectures.