Sentence examples for suppressed laughter from inspiring English sources

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

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.

"I'm not fucking asking him that," the Irishman quickly responded, looking back and forth between Roberto and the group, as most people suppressed laughter.

The rebuke drew suppressed laughter and scattered applause -- not for the president's joke, likely, but for the success of their anti-reform narrative.

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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.

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

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.

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