laughing
showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness
How often you will meet it
Rank 969 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 18,873 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.009% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness also: riant laughing children
laughing in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Another young woman came, laughing and shaking lots of ringlets.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete · George Meredith · Chapter 1
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The girl in the dark garden stood laughing, crying, and listened.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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The tennis, and the laughing with young Heriot on the terrace!
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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She was laughing, the good lady, but not loud enough to prevent Gilberte from hearing M. de Tregars’ answer.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Moreover, Desmond of the frank, laughing face and sparkling blue eyes, and Scaife and Egerton were also in the Lower Remove.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1