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.
  • Burnett cackled and let out a showy sigh.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • All the cackling and debating back and forth can’t change that fact.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
  • 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
  • Kōnane cackles with the frayed voice of a centuries-old elder.
    — Matt Negrin, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The women all cackled in unison.
    — Datwon Thomas, VIBE.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • But her signature cackles always give up the game.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The giant spreads his arms to gesture at the labyrinth of pages, then throws his head back in cackling laughter.
    — Hazlitt, 13 May 2025
  • When Tannahill flipped upside-down for the second time, the cast and crew cackled.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 29 Mar. 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
  • Instead, Roseanne’s cackling drowns these stories out—that’s what star power is.
    — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Some guys across the road cackled at a joke between them, leaning on a massage parlor’s windows.
    — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Sunny settles in front of the TV, cackling away at what appears to be a game show.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Hoft cackled loudly enough to startle a woman at a nearby table.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
  • In between takes, both stars cackle after their fiery makeout sessions and on-camera play fights.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The old insult comic remains onstage, serving up the same routine to a crowd that cackles and roars.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Violet cackled, and the tension broke.
    — Andrew Martin, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
  • This Halloween, forget the pumpkins, fake blood and cackling wicked witches.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The most impressive part is how much fun Megan is having here, cackling between verses.
    — Alex Suskind, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Some of the potential fates can also make everyone cackle with wicked glee like a table full of witches.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

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