JOKE in a Sentence

Learn JOKE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
226 example sentences for JOKE, such as:
1. Well, that's a good joke on them.
2. A rich man's joke is always funny.
3. The last joke got the biggest laugh.
4. This joke has gone a little too far.
5. Well, mebbe he was playing a joke on ye.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of JOKE
joke
 n.  a triviality not to be taken seriously
 n.  a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
Classic Sentence: (170 in 12 pages)
1  Well, that's a good joke on them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  Atlanta, waiting for news of the turn of battle, stopped even trying to laugh and joke.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
3  I recount to you a joke but eet eez a true story.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  Frank had hoped she was only teasing or playing a joke on him, a joke of questionable taste, but he soon found she meant what she said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  Well, I think he did it partly for Melly's sake but mostly because he thought it would be a huge joke on us all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
6  So she hardly ever listened to anything he said, and what she was forced to hear she tried to turn off as a joke.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
7  For years she had thought that nothing mattered very much to him, that he thought everything in life, including her, an ironic joke.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
8  The crude forms in which her friends took their pleasure included a loud enjoyment of such complications: the zest of surprising destiny in the act of playing a practical joke.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
9  She caught herself criticizing his belief that, since his joke about trying to keep her out of the poorhouse had once been accepted as admirable humor, it should continue to be his daily bon mot.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  Even at breakfast he thought the whole thing was a grand joke.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  I guess it's a joke on me, I was such a simp, I felt quite heroic while I was driving the buggy back that night & keeping Cy away from me.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
12  But now comes the greatest joke of the dream, Flask.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31. Queen Mab.
13  Well, mebbe he was playing a joke on ye.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
14  On concluding the sentence he laughed as if he had meant to aim a joke.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
15  "Beg pardon; of course, only a joke, you know," said Haley, forcing a laugh.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  A rich man's joke is always funny.
2  Every joke the comedian made was greeted by a salvo of laughter from the audience.
3  Isobel, whose brother he was, had heard the joke before.
4  His attempts at cooking are a complete joke.
5  I had to explain the joke to her a couple of times before the penny dropped.
6  It's no joke when your brakes fail on the motorway.
7  This joke has gone a little too far.
8  His cheerful joke made us forget our weariness.
9  A joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.
10  The last joke got the biggest laugh.
11  I love it when someone's laugh is funnier than the joke.
12  The joke got a big laugh, which encouraged me to continue.
13  Neil did not mean to offend anybody with his joke.
14  He winked at me to show that he was playing a joke on the others.
15  Please don't joke about such a delicate subject.