The hypothesis was so exotic that I laughed.

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Instead I just laughed.

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When I got up, I laughed at myself.

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Dan and I laughed for days.

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When I was writing it, there were definitely times that I laughed and there were times that I cried.

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If you would have told me then that golf would out-rate tennis, I would have laughed at you.

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My students laughed when I suggested that.

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Top Salesman: When I told the sales team that I was now the top salesman, I got laughed out of the room.

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"Sometimes, and then sometimes I think no, " she laughed.

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So happy, I laughed and babbled like a child.

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Starz passed on a deal offered by Netflix and from what I have been told it was laughed off.

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He so confused and frightened me that I pretended he was making a joke and laughed.

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"At 208 mph, you have no friends--but me, " Greco laughed, as I climbed from the car.

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"This is a resistance hero, " I exclaimed, but the Memorial researchers only laughed.

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When the person I was to meet with came in the lobby I almost laughed and never did take him seriously.

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But when I laughed, that was because I almost smiled.

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After seeing the melodramatic headlines that made it sound like Dunham had lost her mind, gone off the deep end, and wandered out of the house on the day of the event without pants like some lunatic in the midst of a manic episode, I saw the picture of her outfit and laughed.

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"By looking at me, I look like a white boy, " he laughed.

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Samantha laughed when I asked her if she recognised this.

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"I got laughed out the door, " LeVey says.

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And as a woman, I admit that I have laughed at offensive moments in movies like The Hangover.

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When I asked him how he was doing, he laughed again.

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She laughed at my strange reaction, but I was serious.

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"I just kind of laughed it off, " Haslem said.

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When I first read this, I laughed aloud (well, more like snorted) in surprise.

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"As long as it doesn't leak in my bag I don't think anybody would know, " she laughed.

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He laughed at the fact that I couldn't say anything.

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"I'm not a runner at all, " she laughed.

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"We joke about (the potential for a sequel), but I don't know where it would exist, " Rogen laughed.

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He laughed at the ploy and two days later I had my answer.

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