How to Use for laughs in a Sentence

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• There's room for laughs amid the tears and smiles amid the frowns.
  — David Oliver, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
• There is a fair amount of gore, not all of it played for laughs.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2023
• Still, Reeves didn’t just play the part for laughs.
  — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
• Maybe they’re played a little bit more for laughs.
  — Susan Morrison, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
• Capra wasn’t above skewering the rich for laughs, by the way.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
• But Lemann, to her credit, does not play this for laughs.
  — Brandy Jensen, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2026
• Dads just trying to do their best and, in turn, failing at it for laughs for the first two acts.
  — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 30 July 2025
• While most ghost-hunting movies go for scares, Ghostbusters went for laughs.
  — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
• Katt Williams is heading back to the fairway—but this time, not just for laughs.
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• In so many movies, a cat is run over for laughs or something bad happens to a dog for shock value.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
• It was played for laughs, but definitely also a moment of pure joy.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
• But this morning, the administration played the video off for laughs.
  — Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
• The escape is played mostly for laughs, but a current of unease and even violence lurks in the scene.
  — Tomi Obaro, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• In the comments, Barney's owner said the coat, a dog costume meant for laughs, was a bit tricky to size.
  — Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
• The disaster that results might have been played merely for laughs on another show.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2022
• Audiences, Ben told me, hated seeing a comic work too hard for laughs.
  — Joan Silber, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
• In previous episodes this year, Tanya was played almost entirely for laughs.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2022
• The studio now seems to be playing the confusing name situation for laughs.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 17 Apr. 2025
• Will Ferrell is no longer interested in performing in drag for laughs.
  — Variety, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2024
• After all the meta in-jokes, all the celebrity cameos, all the cutaways to the big boss looming offstage, there’s hardly any room left for laughs.
  — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 13 Feb. 2025
• And there is no intended violence, although plenty of head-banging for laughs.
  — Katie Grant, Parents, 7 Aug. 2025
• Bob Hope played a Casanova impersonator for laughs in the nineteen-fifties.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• For instance, Jules has some rather dangerous, even deadly powers, but they’re played mostly for laughs.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• Offering her purely for laughs despite her cruel demise, the play seems to flatter the Wotton in each of us.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
• When Reyes turned one into a fireplace, somebody in the neighborhood put an old recliner next to it for laughs.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2023
• The speeches are absurd, with Short and Streep playing them for laughs, but what matters most is how the two watch each other.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025
• That Boone went from bending that far over backwards for Volpe to benching him two days later is good for laughs, if nothing else.
  — Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
• The production is a zippy romp that plays its murders for laughs and leans into the physical comedy of its set-ups with aplomb.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
• Every so often, the movie throws in an oddball novelty, a quirky touch or ludicrous tangent designed for laughs.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
• In 2018, the report said, footage of the shot to the groin was used, but seemingly more for laughs than for instruction.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024