How to Use laughingstock in a Sentence

laughingstock

noun
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  • The team has become the laughingstock of the league.
  • The mayor became a laughingstock.
  • Indeed, it’s made the Jazz the laughingstock of the league.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 June 2022
  • The Red Raiders’ defense has been the laughingstock of the Big 12 for years.
    — Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2022
  • At that point, the Clippers were the laughingstock of the league — but the Warriors were worse.
    — Rusty Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 4 June 2019
  • Remember when the 76ers were the laughingstock of the NBA?
    — Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 23 June 2017
  • In the ’60s, the Mets took eight years to evolve from laughingstocks to lovable contenders.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The Gators were the laughingstock of the SEC back then and just two years removed from a 13-game losing streak.
    — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 13 July 2019
  • Trump and his enablers have made my country the laughingstock of the world.
    — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most would agree it’s overdue for a franchise that has been a laughingstock for the better part of the past decade.
    — Mark Long, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Oct. 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
  • Today Trump and his enablers have made my country the laughingstock of the world.
    — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2017
  • Yes, the Raiders are once again the laughingstock of the NFL — the franchise that all the others look toward to feel better about themselves.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2019
  • The Yankees’ resurgence has been especially painful in Queens, where the Mets have gone from the talk of the town to a laughingstock.
    — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 28 June 2018
  • This band of partisans, some from out of town, has made our city a laughingstock.
    — latimes.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Through 11 weeks of the NFL season, the Browns have returned to their familiar role of league laughingstocks.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Before Week 10, the Philadelphia Union were the laughingstock of the league.
    — Alexander Abnos, SI.com, 15 May 2017
  • The Baylor Bears went to play Duke as a laughingstock after losing two games at home.
    — Vince Langford, star-telegram, 16 Sep. 2017
  • The Warriors, the league’s biggest laughingstock not so long ago, have entered the NBA history books as one of the great teams of all time.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 June 2018
  • The highway rest stop, long the laughingstock of motorists, is getting a long-overdue makeover.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Westbrook grew up in Los Angeles at a time when the Clippers were a laughingstock.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Formed as a National League expansion club in 1962, the Mets were the laughingstock of baseball for their first half-decade-plus.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 26 Sep. 2019
  • In the space of two weeks, the Broncos have turned themselves from a laughingstock into an AFC playoff contender.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2021

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