(1) There has been much pointing-and-chortling of late at the Daily Mail's embarrassing failure to stoke national outrage over a mildly irreverent comment about the Queen's sex life blurted out by Jack Whitehall on a festive panel show.
(2) "One-nil to the champions" chortled the 2,100 Cardiff fans.
(3) At first, all seemed fine, as we chortled happily away over how she only came up with the idea for the buses seconds before she announced them on air when she was being interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, and how surprised she was that it wasn't only twentysomethings from New York who turned up, but people of all ages from all states.
(4) His exclamatory sock-cymbal sound, often played at the turning point in a theme, or at the close, appeared to be struck with a dismissive blow like a boxer's right cross, and would be all the more arresting for its contrast with Jones's general demeanour of happiness in his work, smiling fit to bust, unleashing a stream of effusive - and highly rhythmic - chortles and grunts, sometimes eyeballing his partners with baleful amiability from the drum stool while intensifying the pressure, as if baiting them into bigger risks.
(5) Many people who hate Nigel Farage the reactionary throwback find themselves liking Nigel Farage the chortling oaf.
(6) "If I were Kim Jong-il I would unify the People's Republic of Korea with the old Peoples Republic of East Germany and make everyone wear Supreme Liederhosen," chortles Bem Bamford.
(7) Being a chortling oaf not only makes you critically bulletproof – oafish chortling being a perpetual escape pod – it functions as a kind of cloaking device, somehow obscuring the notion that you're a politician at all.
(8) "They're a bit daft up north, that's why," chortles Gary Neville.
(9) A seemingly endless capacity to out-chortle Bugs Bunny.
(10) closer to realisation after John Cleese told comedy website Chortle that he has struck a deal with MGM, the studio that holds the rights to the film.
(11) My father at 93 is bedbound and in a nursing home but I have heard him talking and chortling to himself – his sense of humour still somewhere there with the memory loss and confusion of dementia.
(12) The shortlist was drawn up by a panel of critics, with users of Chortle , a comedy website, voting for the winners.
(13) 2.42pm BST Time to chortle away at the latest in our series of brick-by-brick videos.
(14) Despite what the mainstream media told us, black women never stopped aspiring to possess the curves society so hated; we chortled in cinemas at Queen Latifah’s glee from a yes response to the age-old question “Does my butt look big in this?” in the 2005 comedy Beauty Shop.
(15) Seeing his life’s toil all laid out on one floor amounts to an “existential crisis”, he chortles, only half tongue-in-cheek.
(16) A Guardian and an Observer columnist have each won prizes in the Chortle comedy awards.
(17) If I don’t commit suicide, then otherwise my body is very healthy,” he told Indian television with a characteristic chortle.
(18) The Chortle comedy awards have courted controversy by shortlisting only two solo female comics, out of a total of 54 nominations.
(19) House of Cards, which we all love, is more of a melodrama,” Turnbull says, chortling for the first time in an interview with Guardian Australia.
(20) Photograph: Tom Jenkins “Although I’m a little hoarse today as I was cheering so much last night at the football!” chortles the ol’ (slightly husky) smoothy.
Roar
Definition:
(v. i.) To cry with a full, loud, continued sound.
(v. i.) To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.
(v. i.) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.
(v. i.) To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like.
(v. i.) To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
(v. i.) To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.
(v. i.) To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2.
(v. t.) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
(n.) The sound of roaring.
(n.) The deep, loud cry of a wild beast; as, the roar of a lion.
(n.) The cry of one in pain, distress, anger, or the like.
(n.) A loud, continuous, and confused sound; as, the roar of a cannon, of the wind, or the waves; the roar of ocean.
(n.) A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth.
Example Sentences:
(1) When, against Real Madrid, Nani was sent off, Ferguson, jaws agape, interrupting his incessant mastication, roared from the bench, uprooting his assistant and marched to the touchline.
(2) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
(3) As Llewellyn and others reached for their briefcases Ashdown roared that nobody was going anywhere.
(4) A spine-tingling roar rolled off the Kop after an eighth consecutive league win lifted Liverpool above Manchester City and Chelsea with perfect timing.
(5) As Mo Farah charged down the home straight, 80,000 people roaring him on to his second gold medal of these Games, his eyes wide, teeth bared, the whole stadium knew they were witnessing history in the making.
(6) Before things get out of hand, the trophy is presented to Steven Gerrard, who hoists it skywards with a loud roar.
(7) I thought it was like [Joe] DiMaggio’s hit streak.” The arena was covered in blue and gold and roaring for the home team, cheers that were even louder for each of Curry’s 10 three-pointers.
(8) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
(9) Shortly afterwards normal service was very briefly resumed when, with Cardiff overcommitted to attack, a customary roar greeted Newcastle's third goal, a header from the popular, Geordie-reared substitute Steven Taylor.
(10) By day, the whooshing of skis and scratching of poles and the roar of wind past their ears dominate the explorers' world.
(11) Xinhua, Beijing’s official news service, said Micius, a 600kg satellite that is nicknamed after an ancient Chinese philosopher, “roared into the dark sky” over the Gobi desert at 1.40am local time on Tuesday, carried by a Long March-2D rocket.
(12) Mexican striker Matias Vuoso and Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal both scored twice in a game that roared from end to end and never let up in intensity.
(13) Inside, vendors sold balloons, candyfloss and posters of Sisi with Nasser, Sisi with a roaring lion, Sisi with his trademark sunglasses.
(14) A little roar went up, just for a moment, and then died away almost as quickly.
(15) He performed his debut show , Dicing with Dr Death, as part of the Edinburgh fringe comedy festival, described in its synopsis as “a rip-roaring ride through his 20 years working with life’s one certainty: death”.
(16) Stock markets roared ahead and sterling tumbled after the Bank of England and European Central Bank took unprecedented steps to quash investor fears that they were preparing to reduce monetary stimulus.
(17) Those fed Pb only developed pharyngeal and laryngeal paralysis ("roaring") whereas those fed Zn only and Pb and Zn together developed the same clinical syndrome which included swelling at the epiphyseal region of the long bones, stiffness and lameness.
(18) Analysis of official statistics by the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (Cresc) at Manchester University backs up Martin's hunch: London and the south-east have come roaring out of the crash, and now account for a greater share of growth than they did even during the boom.
(19) Price remembers a parliamentary Christmas party where Jo and the children raced through parliament, their faces painted as tigers as they roared at each other.
(20) The roar was equally loud when Victor Moses had the first shot two minutes in.