How to Use laugh track in a Sentence

laugh track

noun
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  • To the rest of the country, the law served as a laugh track and spectacle.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 1 July 2020
  • The laugh track roars; Allison is crushed, and the air is briefly sucked from the scene.
    — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The laugh track roars; Allison is crushed, and the air is briefly sucked from the scene.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 14 June 2021
  • In other words—instead of adding a laugh track, spend more time on the jokes.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 17 Feb. 2022
  • With the exception of the laugh track, which is grating on the ear five decades later.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
  • There are zany antics, slapstick gags, and a laugh track.
    — Time, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The lights are bright, the laugh track is loud, the Boston accents are… questionable.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 June 2021
  • Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the host of the laugh track column, a man who will not trade down ...
    — Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Much like the original, this show has a weekly format, and a laugh track.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Critics have argued that in the era of prestige television, the laugh track needs to die.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 July 2019
  • But then also riffing on the stuff that comes from the rest of the universe, like commercials and little bumpers and the laugh track.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2020
  • The show also offers a voice-over as intrusive as a laugh track.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 20 June 2021
  • Why the parody was no laughing matter Cue the laugh track.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The couple grudgingly put up with each other and a laugh track.
    — Ali Wentworth, Town & Country, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Response shots and asides are the new laugh track, the new grammar of so much television humor.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 19 June 2019
  • Best of all is that the usual canned laugh track is replaced with the actual laughter of the Muppet crew.
    — Donald Liebenson, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The dialogue is over the top; the laugh track—and, in the first episode, a live studio audience—is intrusive.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Cardboard figures of fans were placed in some of the seats and crowd noise was piped in — a sports version of a comedy show laugh track.
    — Fortune, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Yet somehow, there was also a laugh track for the sillier scenes?
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2023
  • The scenes of them together are set to the classic sitcom laugh track and upbeat music.
    — New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022
  • If stadium atmosphere means that much, pipe in crowd noise the way old sitcoms used to have laugh tracks.
    — Greg Moore, azcentral, 1 May 2020
  • Gutman wasn't sure at first about the producers' decision to add an applause and laugh track to the broadcast.
    — John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The scene is presented as a huge moment: Kevin and Pete are both stunned into silence; the jazzy music and the laugh track both briefly fall away.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 July 2021
  • Enter virtual audiences and the return of the laugh track.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Sitcoms in the '80s and '90s, for example, were largely filled with set-ups that were followed by punchlines that were followed by a laugh track.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Later in the program, there was a skit that included a laugh track in an empty stadium.
    — Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • Others still might resemble an old-school brawler, a space shooter, a rhythm game, or even a sitcom, complete with a laugh track.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Even the cherished theme song gets a boppy electronic overhaul, although the laugh track remains in place.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 July 2022
  • Deprived of their instruments and a live audience, and saddled with a laugh track, the brothers struggled.
    — William Grimes, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Kevin wants to investigate the dark drama hiding behind a laugh track.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 June 2021

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