JOKE in a Sentence
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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.
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.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of JOKE
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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.
2 Atlanta, waiting for news of the turn of battle, stopped even trying to laugh and joke.
3 I recount to you a joke but eet eez a true story.
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.
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.
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.
7 For years she had thought that nothing mattered very much to him, that he thought everything in life, including her, an ironic joke.
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.
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.
10 Even at breakfast he thought the whole thing was a grand joke.
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.
12 But now comes the greatest joke of the dream, Flask.
13 Well, mebbe he was playing a joke on ye.
14 On concluding the sentence he laughed as if he had meant to aim a joke.
15 "Beg pardon; of course, only a joke, you know," said Haley, forcing a laugh.
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.