1.   His laughter stopped her mid-sentence.

2.   His laughter stopped as quickly as it had begun.

3.   Her mocking laughter stopped suddenly as she saw his face go deathly white.

4.   After the laughter stopped, he had their full attention.

5.   But when the laughter stopped, he picked up a wooden box containing an All-Star ring.

6.   I imagine that maintaining enough inner peace to laugh was hard for Neil sometimes, because when the laughter stopped, she was right back where she started.

7.   Laughter abruptly stops, however, when seemingly innocuous fibbing turns into gross exaggeration or out-and-out lying.

8.   The cynical laughter stopped around the time Lt. Winslow McGill of the Metropolitan Police Department clicked on a slide of a young man slain by a rival drug gang.

9.   The laughter stopped Wednesday night.