| 1 | It has become the laughingstock of the town. | |
| 2 | This made him the laughingstock of the whole school. | |
| 3 | When you are weird, you are a joke. | |
| 4 | How many geese are there, without wings, who, for similar assumption, become laughing-stocks to their neighbors ! | |
| 5 | But, as Mr Bush' s first treasury secretary, he was rapidly reduced to a laughing-stock. |