1.   It is easy enough to identify features that are likely to provoke laughter and were presumably intended to do so amongst the common attributes of the fabliaux.

2.   Although today its mention is likely to provoke nervous laughter, it was once a serious matter.

3.   Cochran asked, provoking laughter in the courtroom.

4.   He was a notorious flirt, a known cheat at cards who provoked mostly laughter, a wizard at fixing the televisions of neighbors.

5.   Its goal is less to provoke laughter than to elicit an amusing shock.

6.   Its goal is less to provoke laughter than an amusing shock.

7.   Sen. Moseley-Braun shot back, provoking laughter on both sides of the committee room.

8.   The spectacle of hapless Middle Americans eating blueberry bagels provoked such laughter not too long ago, but soon New York bagel shops were all selling blueberry bagels.

9.   This is a sharp, funny book by one of the few travel writers who can provoke belly laughter.

10.   While they provoked raucous laughter in the normally staid courtroom, they seemed to confuse the issue about why they were called by the defense.