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Example sentences for "laughingstock"

Lexicographically close words:
laughen; laughers; laugheth; laughing; laughingly; laughs; laught; laughter; laughters; lauish
  1. I am become a laughingstock all the day, all scoff at me.

  2. Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter: lest at anytime she make thee become a laughingstock to thy enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and she make thee ashamed before all the multitude.

  3. When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughingstock of his hearers.

  4. Sir 18:31 If thou givest thy soul the desires that please her, she will make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies that malign thee.

  5. Sir 42:11 Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter, lest she make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and make thee ashamed before the multitude.

  6. He, the commander in chief, a Serene Highness who everybody said possessed powers such as no man had ever had in Russia, to be placed in this position--made the laughingstock of the whole army!

  7. Then Louis XVIII, who till then had been the laughingstock both of the French and the Allies, began to reign.

  8. That I shall be the laughingstock of all Moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what you were about, challenged a man you are jealous of without cause.

  9. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he remained in the city for the purpose of making a laughingstock of me.

  10. Which shall you do--make the deal I proposed or be made a public laughingstock again?

  11. It has been about three weeks since I informed you of my intention to abduct you and make you a laughingstock again.

  12. He had made the young clubman a laughingstock more than once.

  13. As for you, Mr. Roger Verbeck, you will be the laughingstock of the city to-morrow, so prepare to be ridiculed.

  14. Within four days I'll make a huge laughingstock of Roger Verbeck.

  15. Ay, after I have made myself the laughingstock of the realm!

  16. Tis enough to make the name of De Baudricourt the laughingstock of the whole country!

  17. Then you'd be the laughingstock of the corps, as the plebe who wanted to dance at the hop.

  18. You're famous, besides, as the boldest plebe that ever came here; the yearlings are the laughingstock of the place because of you.

  19. Texas was not seeking for any beautiful effects, mind you; all he wanted to do was to put some mark on those yearlings that would cure them of their hazing habits, that would make them the laughingstock of the class.

  20. But the news when it spread next morning made them the laughingstock of all creation.

  21. The dog had chewed Bull's trousers to ribbons, had broken up the parade, had made Bull the laughingstock of the place and earned him the deathless nickname of "Bull, the Burglar.

  22. Then when he came he'd have no one to dance with, and would be a laughingstock generally.

  23. If they try to dump me to-night I'm going to fool them and I'm going to fix it so that they'll be the laughingstock of the corps.

  24. King, a Doctor of Physick, made the object of scorn and contempt; but he who then derided the dead has since become the laughingstock of the living.

  25. I am afraid the doctor, who is said to have become the laughingstock of the living, has entirely faded out of men's minds and memories.

  26. It will be entertaining to outwit you continually, to make you the laughingstock of the city.

  27. If this big crook puts that over to-night, it'll make the boss a bigger laughingstock than before.

  28. This old chap was the laughingstock of his class.

  29. Now are ye quite crazy, for do ye see anything by which ye can carry me, or do you intend to take me on your backs one at a time and thus carry me a laughingstock into Lancaster?

  30. Yet if, by any chance, I proved later innocent of the charge, then he would become the laughingstock of the army.

  31. You have made me the laughingstock of Philadelphia.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laughingstock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    butt; byword; caricature; dupe; fool; game; goat; jest; joke; laughingstock; mockery; monkey; mug; stock; target; toy; victim