Sentence examples for sustained laughter from inspiring English sources

He drew sustained laughter with his proposals for changing company procedures: "No more e-mail," he urged.

There was sustained laughter in the packed Pollak Theater, and the moment on Wednesday night seemed to confirm the adage that humor is truth.

WASHINGTON — President Obama drew sustained laughter from Congress, especially Democrats, on Wednesday when he declared in his State of the Union speech that "by now it should be fairly obvious that I didn't take on health care because it was good politics".

All around you would be the sound of sustained laughter, which seemed to make everything that bit funnier.

"I've never seen as much debris being thrown [at the fourth official]." They both break out into sustained laughter.

As an aside, on a couple of occasions, as I displayed a card on myself, students broke into loud and sustained laughter.

Yet here it is looking springtime-fresh under Dylan Baker's direction, with a glittering cast, splendidly led by Faith Prince and Marian Seldes, generating sustained gale-force laughter.

Yet here it is looking springtime-fresh under Dylan Baker's direction, with a glittering cast, led by Faith Prince and Marian Seldes, generating sustained gale-force laughter.

In "The Tall T," something like friendship starts to bloom between Scott and Boone when Scott, climbing out of the dugout in which he has spent the night a prisoner, bumps his head on a low beam, provoking Boone to sustained, good-natured laughter and the offer of a cup of coffee.

Eventually, he manages to get out his next line: "Now, do you want a … full exchange?" Newhart ad libs, **"**Well, I … I'd like a straight man who didn't laugh!" He adds, "You're sure you worked with Jerry Martinin (wiping tears from his eyes): "But our stuff wasn't this funny, I'll tell you that!" The audience erupts with laughter and sustained applause.

It was just one episode of what might be the most popular television series in Saudi Arabia, but it touched off both sustained outrage and peals of laughter across the kingdom.