1.   Donnell, in staging the Puccini, indulges melodrama, occasionally to the point of eliciting unwanted chuckles, if the audience on Saturday evening was typical.

2.   Evans said Bisek elicited a chuckle when Browning asked whether Gingrich ever sent flowers and she said he had not.

3.   Even when the old bones are creaking in the midsummer heat, I can always depend on a reader to elicit a chuckle, albeit on a serious subject.

4.   His statements, delivered in increasingly impressive English, elicit chuckles.

5.   Her flub elicited chuckles from the booth.

6.   Neilson elicits chuckles when he says his recovery plan is well-timed.

7.   Which elicits another chuckle from Langenbrunner.

8.   His right hand, an anti-aircraft missile, hits the target and elicits a chuckle.

9.   The direct hit elicits a chuckle.