As soon as they noticed me, the girls' laughter ceased.

Now he lowered his voice, kept speaking gently until the laughter and noise ceased.

The shouts and laughter and music from the field where the games were held had ceased.

As they approached, laughter ceased beyond the opened windows.

The laughter ceased, and was not followed by any other sound.

It was when the laughter ceased altogether that one had to worry.

Now and again a woman screamed and the drunken laughter never ceased.

The laughter ceased on the instant and fury took its place.

The strains of music and the laughter from the bunkhouse had ceased.

A few yards on, he realised that the laughter from the street behind him had ceased.