11.   If the gesture did not necessarily provide assurance of a happy cultural mesh, it did draw laughter and managed to defuse an awkward moment.

12.   In public showings, that passage of the film usually drew laughter.

13.   It drew laughter from the Mavericks, who also were asleep at the wheel.

14.   Mrs. Clinton draws appreciative laughter by joking about this or that conversation she has had with Eleanor Roosevelt.

15.   Ruano-Melendez at several points seemed confused about the question at hand, and his responses drew laughter from the audience and even some of his fellow candidates.

16.   She drew laughter from the luncheon crowd in Olympia by comparing the breakdown to a male ego problem.

17.   That drew laughter from his players, although they did not linger around the cake or their coach.

18.   That excuse drew bitter laughter in the courtroom last month.

19.   That drew laughter from the rest.

20.   That line was one of several that drew laughter.