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Example sentences for: chuckles

How can you use “chuckles” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

One can almost hear the appreciative chuckles from the spectators' gallery at this bit of repartee--the overreactive, tension-dispelling response that very mild witticisms tend to produce in solemn venues.
Its laughs are as crude as the chuckles of "little boys sniggering over National Geographic " (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). Others say its digs at ivory-tower credulousness and Dreyfuss' turn as a neurotic professor make it "too funny to ignore" (David Denby, New York ). (The trailer is available here.)
But Hume cuts in with, "Pat, Pat, Pat [chuckles], we're asking the questions here."
[T]hey tried to say they weren't spending the Social Security surplus--[chuckles]--and tried to blame us with wanting to, which is a miracle how they got that done.
Everyone chuckles.