How to Use cackle in a Sentence

cackle

verb

• The hens were cackling in the henhouse.
• I could hear my aunts cackling in the next room.
• Witches will come out this of year to cast their spells and cackle away the night.
  — Woman's Day Staff, Woman's Day, 9 Sep. 2019
• Later, in what felt like the middle of the night, some guinea fowl cackled.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2023
• The other students cackle on their way out the door, leaving the two of us.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• The wind cackled in the eaves, but the little wild creatures above were unfazed.
  — Okwiri Oduor, Harper's Magazine, 15 June 2022
• His work had humor too, with licks that could cackle and leads that could tease.
  — Jim Farber, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
• His work had humor, too, with licks that could cackle and leads that could tease.
  — Jim Farber, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• When Tannahill flipped upside-down for the second time, the cast and crew cackled.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• The sisters tried not to cackle, though Eleanor knew that laughter was the greatest change of subject.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• The Cats movie trailer was released, and the internet cackled, howled, and screamed.
  — Tara Edwards, refinery29.com, 23 July 2019
• After getting the go-ahead, Koch unlocks the racks with one shot, cackling with glee as the deer run off unscathed.
  — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 28 Feb. 2023
• My cat has started flirting with a squirrel that cackles on the opposite side of the screen door.
  — Glen David Gold, New York Times, 22 June 2018
• The Whale star couldn't help but drop an F-bomb when the teeth fell completely out, much to the audience's cackling delight.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2023
• This memoir suggests Mr. Springsteen met many of them while cackling over there in the shotgun seat.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2016
• And yet Heller is silent and Republicans are cackling about buying him off, so the bill seems to be very much alive at the moment.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 14 July 2017
• A few examples from Kwai: As geese cackle in the yard of a rural home, a bride holds up her white wedding gown so its hem doesn’t touch the dirt.
  — Li Yuan, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2017
• She’s taken her growing pains in stride and continues to cackle with glee through her rise.
  — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 9 July 2021
• That southern girl, born in Atlanta, has a boisterous laugh and cackle that won’t deny you a good time.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 28 Oct. 2022
• And the Halloween-eve hair-raiser adds a cackling skeleton to a horror arcade of ghoulish news for EVs.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023
• There was a lull, during which time Ally and I cackled with excitement.
  — Maria Del Russo, The Cut, 15 Mar. 2018
• Luke’s desperate fight, the Emperor cackling, telling him to give himself over to his hate.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Instead, Roseanne’s cackling drowns these stories out—that’s what star power is.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• This Halloween, forget the pumpkins, fake blood and cackling wicked witches.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
• The helmeted hornbill is a huge, cackling bird native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia.
  — National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2016
• The helmeted hornbill is a huge, cackling bird native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia.
  — National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2016
• Minnie appears to accept, and the pair share a hug as Sandoval and her companions cackle with laughter.
  — Janine Puhak, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
• In between takes, both stars cackle after their fiery makeout sessions and on-camera play fights.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2022
• Hoft cackled loudly enough to startle a woman at a nearby table.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• Girls Trip star Tiffany Haddish cackled charmingly for Groupon.
  — Ellen Gray, Philly.com, 4 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024