GIGGLE in a Sentence

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55 example sentences for GIGGLE, such as:

1. The children were giggling and nudging each other.
2. If you can't stop giggling you'll have to leave the room.
3. I'll gossip and giggle, and have horrors and raptures over any trifle you like.
4. Scarlett wanted to giggle at her discomfiture, for Rhett had caught her fairly.
5. What a silly thing to say to a man, thought Scarlett, ready to giggle with relief.

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 Meanings and Examples of GIGGLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
giggle
 v.  laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; laugh in light, affected, or silly manner
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  What a silly thing to say to a man, thought Scarlett, ready to giggle with relief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  But the doctor did look like a goat with his gray chin whiskers wagging away at a great rate, and with difficulty she stifled a giggle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  "'Accept only candy and flowers from gentlemen, dearie,'" he mimicked, and she burst into a giggle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  Scarlett wanted to giggle at her discomfiture, for Rhett had caught her fairly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  "Don't giggle," he said, and taking her hand, he turned it over and pressed his lips into the palm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  With pity for his bewilderment, and a certain desire to giggle, she consoled him, "Then let's try some Tennyson."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  I giggle with the most revolting salaciousness over La Vie Parisienne, when I get hold of one in Chicago, yet I shouldn't even try to hold your hand.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  "That ar's what ye may call emphasis," said Marks, poking Haley in the side, and going into another small giggle.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  There was a good deal of rustling and whispering behind the curtain, a trifle of lamp smoke, and an occasional giggle from Amy, who was apt to get hysterical in the excitement of the moment.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWO
10  I'll gossip and giggle, and have horrors and raptures over any trifle you like.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
11  This made them giggle so delightedly that they were obliged to cover their mouths with their hands, remembering that they must not be heard.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  "I must be going home," said Varenka, getting up, and again she went off into a giggle.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 35
13  The rest of the family privately thought that the giggling and simple-minded Honey had done far better than could be expected and they marveled that she had caught any man.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  He led a giggling class through the prisons, the charity bureaus, the employment agencies of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  The grocer, his clerk, and neurotic Mrs. Dave Dyer had been giggling about something.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  The children giggle at the teacher's high-pitched voice.
2  The children were giggling and nudging each other.
3  If you can't stop giggling you'll have to leave the room.
4  Stop giggling, children; this is a serious matter.
5  Stop giggling and wriggling around in the pew: such levity is improper in church.