How to Use laughingstock in a Sentence

laughingstock

noun
  • The team has become the laughingstock of the league.
  • The mayor became a laughingstock.
  • Then, the franchise was a league laughingstock for many years.
    — Larry Lage, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Trump and his enablers have made my country the laughingstock of the world.
    — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2017
  • This band of partisans, some from out of town, has made our city a laughingstock.
    — latimes.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • The other has been the laughingstock of the NFL for more than a decade.
    — Jon Hoefling, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Charlotte has long been a franchise laughingstock, dare say always.
    — Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The witnesses made Ohio a laughingstock and bill doesn’t have the votes to pass in its current form.
    — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 15 July 2021
  • Stateside, they are viewed as a laughingstock, the last remaining team without a win.
    — Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The highway rest stop, long the laughingstock of motorists, is getting a long-overdue makeover.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2018
  • At that point, the Clippers were the laughingstock of the league — but the Warriors were worse.
    — Rusty Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 4 June 2019
  • West’s influence turned the Warriors from a laughingstock to the league’s lodestar.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 12 June 2024
  • In the ’60s, the Mets took eight years to evolve from laughingstocks to lovable contenders.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • For decades, Atherton football was a laughingstock.
    — Rich Barak, Louisville Courier Journal, 12 Sep. 2025
  • If not for the attractive Lakers brand, the team would have been the laughingstock of the league much sooner.
    — Barry Bauling, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • No, this isn’t the same Bengals team that was seen by some outside of Cincinnati as a laughingstock.
    — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The Knicks went from a laughingstock franchise to one of the league’s elite under Brunson’s watch.
    — Joe Vardon, New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • The Red Raiders’ defense has been the laughingstock of the Big 12 for years.
    — Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2022
  • In less than three years the world’s business and government heroes would be the laughingstock of the century.
    — John Alderman, WIRED, 19 Aug. 1998
  • When the day began, an 11 1/2 to 4 1/2 deficit set him up to be a laughingstock.
    — Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The former Florida Gator has seen the club go from a laughingstock to a contender.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The Baylor Bears went to play Duke as a laughingstock after losing two games at home.
    — Vince Langford, star-telegram, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Cunningham endured being the face of the league’s laughingstock.
    — Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Now a sign-stealing scandal has turned the Astros into a laughingstock, their rings all but meaningless to the rest of the sport.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
  • For some difficult-to-define reason, this trip made Perry a laughingstock.
    — Choire Sicha, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Westbrook grew up in Los Angeles at a time when the Clippers were a laughingstock.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
  • That’s the homegrown trio that took the Warriors from irrelevance and laughingstock status to the top of the mountain.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 30 June 2019
  • The butt of the joke here is the white Establishment, reduced by Everett’s tropes and puns to a redneck laughingstock.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2021
  • His club has gone from the laughingstock of the majors to the best record in the AL and Henderson has played a huge role in their success.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • So why not continue the franchise’s quest to be the primary laughingstock of the NFL?
    — Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025

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