(n.) A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision.
(v. i.) To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Tell Harold Bloom, I've had much posher recommendations," she says, chuckling.
(2) Half-time Half-time analysis: It's like an end-of-season game in Italy," chuckles James Richardson, as he brings me my coffee ... because he knows his place.
(3) Then you’ll have two boats with the same name, and two with no name.” He chuckles.
(4) "I remember when I heard last year that Yorkshire was bidding to host the Tour and I must admit I chuckled.
(5) It is easy to point to lines that have a fortuitous topicality: knowing chuckles now greet George's admission that "There's a sense in which I even quite like a war", and later suggestion that, if Labour can't beat the Tories, the best solution is to join them.
(6) "This is where the gap between my theoretical desire and practical politics comes in," he chuckles.
(7) Today he can afford to chuckle, in a financial sense as well as an emotional one.
(8) Mumford gives a small chuckle, and concedes I might have a point.
(9) The biggest problem is there aren’t any people,” he said with a chuckle.
(10) I'd have to say a lion because he's bigger [little chuckle].
(11) Royles also had to endure more or less the entire committee laughing at him openly when he boasted about consultants' high levels of job satisfaction, something the chuckling Mps surmised might be caused by their stellar pay.
(12) Whetstone wrote: “ Given the tone of some of your publications, that made quite a few people chuckle ” and followed the comment with a gif of a baby laughing.
(13) She chuckled about that at a dinner last week with Arthur Sulzberger – the Times's publisher, who gave her the editor's job.
(14) One summer day in 1994, my best friend Steve – a gentle, jovial guy with the most disarming chuckle – called and asked me to meet him for lunch.
(15) In the flesh, though, he's more Bruce Forsyth than Bruce Willis: sweet-eyed, gleaming-teethed, with a keen ear for innuendo and a frankly mucky chuckle.
(16) Then he chuckles into the phone from his office in New York, where he now works.
(17) OK, well, first of all, Owen’s a very ambitious man,” adding with a dry chuckle, “He’s very evidently taken the opportunity that’s been presented.” That said, he would “absolutely not” call Owen “Blairite-lite”, and says crossly, “I think it’s a stupid phrase to use.
(18) [Chuckling] No, we didn't have some barbaric practices in the NBA.
(19) Sandwiched between the adverts, the programmes were comprised of laugh track chuckles and a life lesson for the kids, one per episode.
(20) Elsewhere, the corpses are swapped for tragedy and the Muttley chuckles turn to whimpers.
Sneaker
Definition:
(n.) One who sneaks.
(n.) A vessel of drink.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemaker.
(2) This was when American Apparel opened, the Canadian hipster magazine Vice moved to New York, and the sneaker boutique and branding agency Alife established itself on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
(3) They were attributed to the chronic pressure of his high-laced athletic sneakers and frequent minor injuries to the involved areas.
(4) The following conclusions were obtained: 1) The assembly line workers handled about 3,400 sneaker shoes per day on the assembly line.
(5) Now it's meaningful in this world to say that you sell sneakers, at a high level."
(6) Three types of protective suits for asbestos removal work were tested in a climatic chamber at two ambient temperatures, 25 degrees and 36 degrees C. Four subjects performed 50 min of bicycle exercise at 90 W dressed in shorts, socks and sneakers (NoPS).
(7) One patient wears sneakers instead of regular shoes.
(8) One of the girls developed foot dermatitis later from the adhesive used on the inside of new sneakers.
(9) You see these shoes?” she says, brandishing a pair of Timberland sneakers outside her tent on a pier in Piraeus port.
(10) Step length in heeled shoes was shorter than that in sneakers and flat shoes.
(11) However, children wearing low-top sneakers had the lowest rate of LOF (24.0%) of any group.
(12) Oh, and having shod the entire fashion industry in her cult skate sneakers, she revealed next season’s must-have flat: a neat, elasticated white ballet slipper, flat or with a small block heel.
(13) But none of these events, not even Andy Murray reaching the final of the Australian Open, has generated half as much hullabaloo as the appearance on a stage in San Francisco of an ill-shaven old boy in jeans and sneakers to present his latest commercial product to the world.
(14) But the MacNN site goes on to say that this branch in Regent Street generates three times the revenue per square foot as Harrods – the corner store of the super-rich now easily overtaken by the man we will shortly see, no doubt wearing the usual black polo-neck and sneakers, pulling his next revolutionary magic rabbit out of the iHat.
(15) And we had the crystal ball, motherfuckin' Do the Right Thing with John Savage's character, when he rolled his bike over Buggin' Out's sneaker.
(16) Falls were three times more frequent in sneakers as compared to shoes on tile surfaces and five times more frequent on rugging.
(17) Forty-three years old, he wore light jeans, an orange T-shirt and silver sneakers; his face, with its goatee and glasses, was poised at a precise fulcrum between relaxed southern gentleman – a young Colonel Sanders, maybe – and eager fantasy geek.
(18) Working principally to prevent repeat teen pregnancy, improve birth outcomes to teen mothers, and build adolescent parenting skills, the Nike (sneaker)-Footed Health Worker Project (NFHW) draws trainees from the target population of parenting adolescents.
(19) April is in a parka, jeans and her beloved Birkenstock clogs, Scott is in his lumberjack gear, Ken is in sneakers as per usual.
(20) In black jeans and charcoal grey crewneck, tucking his phone and white earbuds into a pocket, bouncing boyishly on his sneakers, you might at first peg him as, say, a Silicon Valley whiz-kid rather than a top-flight fashion designer.