How To Use Joke In A Sentence

Some of his jokes are a bit too near the knuckle for my taste.
You know, I always joked I had a million acquaintances and only a couple of close friends.
There are, true, a few tonal changes: the jokes are jokier, the touches of malice heavier, and she revels more obviously than before in the playfulness she brings to her performances. What Sarah Palin Doesn't Know
This green bucket lark is a joke, and I am sure that every large family in Bolton will agree when I say that I can fill this in a couple of days, and you think that I can go a fortnight between collections?
Would you stop making jokes at my expense?

Some of the jokes were rude, others corny, and some a tad funny.
He reports that many Israelis, using the word Shoah, which is Hebrew for Holocaust, joke that "There's no business like Shoah business. Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free
The joke was met by jeers from the audience. Times, Sunday Times
The rest of the cast (including Elias, whom I like normally) sucked green eggs and hammed it up like the subject was a bad joke. Rabid Rewind: Defendor
The joke got a big laugh, which encouraged me to continue.
He grinned at me, as if sharing a secret joke.
It was an innocent deception, meant as a joke.
They were following the cortege to the cemetery, and her dad was making jokes. IN REAL LIFE
The acting was hammy, the jokes were forced, and the entire thing came across like a high school play - actors overdoing everything in cringe-worthy performances.
Those two jokers may be happy in their never-never land, but it's time they recognised reality.
The overriding principle is not to offend the sensitive by immoderate cachinnation at an inappropriate joke. Times, Sunday Times
His critics like to joke that at 67, he still wears lifts in his shoes.
The World Is Flat" & Co. were cyclones of breeziness, mixing metaphors by the dozens and whipping up slang and clichés and jokey catchphrases of the author's own invention. Shovel-Ready Shibboleths
He made a poor joke or two and an excuse to leave. Times, Sunday Times
-- Morgan Freeman wonka bar aww yes, the joker is back ... maybe Joseph Gordon Levitt could write it? blog comments powered by Disqus Jamie Foxx Writing Laverne & Shirley Feature; Jessica Biel and Jennifer Garner Still Attached to Star | /Film
She was trying not to lose the urge that was uniquely her own, brattiness, joy, jokes, willfulness. Some Fun
(Members of the Other Place will appreciate the little in-joke about the Woolsack.) Previous John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
The remake was funny, full of good jokes, strong characters and little blasts of impotent rage. Times, Sunday Times
I've lost count of the times I've heard that joke.
He joked: ‘George launched a ship in Belfast and it was three miles out at sea before he let go of the bottle.’
The main thing I'd define myself as is as a humourist, and there's so many jokes to be made that haven't been made, because we haven't talked about this stuff, you know? The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran
His name was James and he was younger than me...perhaps by a year. *cue cradle-snatching jokes* He was my friend's cousin, and I remember thinking he was gorgeous when I first met him. Archive 2010-07-01
Camara joked that he did not know what the word "discombobulate" meant. NCAA Division I Mens Basketball - Tennessee vs. Kentucky
But stated thusly, it's not a very funny joke, is it?
frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes
Do you know any dirty jokes in Spanish?
But the time has surely come to blow the whistle on these jokers.
He's a pompous old prig who's totally incapable of taking a joke.
The other officers laughed but Nichols couldn't see the joke .
We made the typical jokes about whether we would be there at the same time the next week - gallows humour. Times, Sunday Times
He hires all his unemployable comedy friends and we're supposed to chuckle along with their camaraderie, as though paying eight bucks makes us eligible to be in on the in-jokes.
Brilliant and eloquent, he was full of jokes and pranks. Times, Sunday Times
Statistical revision is the wild card in that most inexact pack of jokers known as economics.
The mother of a teenager killed during an argument about a dog has branded the British justice system a joke after his attacker was jailed for three years.
The .270 dinger is a joke among our deer gang and family around home. Deer Hunting with Dogs
Also, don't get me started on the stupid jokey sublot about getting Kirk onto the Enterpires or the idiotic way he takes command of the ship. How Now Brownpau
Except for being the punchline of a few freshman jokes, being the lone "freshy" on the tennis team hasn't been too bad, either. Paul & Matt's Sports Attack
He jokes with him on the phone, finishes the call and continues at the point that he left off.
He told the same style old jokes I've heard fifty times before.
Social media was flooded with jokes and gripes about it. The Sun
off-color jokes
People see this larger-than-life character who jokes but he takes his football very seriously. The Sun
So brace yourselves for more lame jokes, folks. Times, Sunday Times
When the word ‘scientist’ was first spoken in 1833, it was meant as a joke: its coinage first drew laughs and later was attacked as ‘an American barbarous trisyllable.’
If your heart has a vacancy, a jokey text message could be disguising genuine love feelings. The Sun
The sense is that when you put on the shirt, you are there to do a job, and there's no space for jokers.
They talk and joke and sing snatches of popular songs.
`Samuel Byrd, progenitor and jokester, was supposed to have been the classic roistering robber baron," Livvy said. DEATH OF A NYMPH
The head doorman is a bit of joker and you can have a laugh with him but it's not advisable to upset him too much.
The crowds relaxed into laughter at the speaker's excellent joke.
Students give him absurd names and wheel him out for practical jokes and pranks. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
The jokes were funny ; the observations about single life refreshing. Times, Sunday Times
They instantly fall into certain companionable roles: the smartest one lends an educated perspective on a topic, the most outrageous one cracks the kind of jokes she wouldn’t dare to if a man were around, the least intellectually secure one feels safe enough to ask the most rudimentary questions. The Uses of Enchantment
Clad in a rollneck and forever gently clasping a glass of red wine, Lucont represents all the jokes and illusions we have about the French taken to an exaggerated and absurd level. This week's new comedy
When asked whether the Chilean had shed the excess pounds he gained after his injury, he joked that all that worried him was the player's haircut.
In the rest of the review, this translates to the criticism that The Confessions of Max Tivoli is too clever, The Dew Breaker too "exotic," Little Children too jokey. Politics and Literature
So popstrel Samantha Mumba's joke at last week's Brits is a pretty good joke.
Look how they have treated President Obama and his wife with nasty racist jokes and nasty hatful comments for the right wing white nuts. Senate apologizes for slavery
We all laughed at his joke.
When played as the High Card, jokers rank as aces.
Don't be such a sorehead - it was only meant to be a joke.
Chip Caray infuriated a lot of baseball fans this October on TBS, sparking jokes as he described seemingly every hit as "fisted," and completely botching a call in the 10th inning of the AL Central one-game playoff, when he screamed, "Line drive, base hit!" on a screamer by Nick Punto that Tigers left fielder Ryan Raburn caught before throwing home to nail Alexi Casilla at the plate and keep the game going. NY Daily News
Pondering the wisdom of basing a key joke on an obscure music reference that most people won't understand, I wander back downstairs to the lounge.
With each drop, Gil quickly jots a new joke in his journals. The Deli Worker
You might as well ask him to tie a yellow cashmere jumper around his shoulders and tell you jokes in his third language, showing his perfect teeth. Times, Sunday Times
These guys are so funny and laid back on stage, making jokes, telling stories, having a good time.
He would sneak around at night and set up jokes and tricks and then laugh at the staff members who got caught in them.
I'm a real intellectual-type guy, Tracy," James joked. "Oh, give me a break," Tracy moaned.
With the no-doubt unintended effect of suggesting that Wallace's menace and ensuing mayhem might, in hindsight, be laughed-off like a good-ol'-boy joke, "George Wallace: Settin 'the Woods on Fire" takes part of its title, and its misguided musical leitmotif from a wacky, Hank Williams party-hearty song. Film/Television: Lost Highways
We took a walk up the street and Capa just stopped and joined a game of cribbage that some fishermen were playing, and next there would be a girl, and he joked 'Where's your boyfriend?' Rare Robert Capa print in auction of news photography treasures
Practical and down-to-earth, he's a bit of a joker and Paul's only friend outside the observatory.
I believe what you are calling a smirk is where his teleprompter is telling him to "SMILE" -- that's so we, and he, know that he told us a joke, and also to dispel that nasty rumor going around about his bad temper. McCain Jokes About Obama's Overseas Trip And Press Coverage
As I happened to be sitting next the driver going to town on the 'bus, I told him my joke about the "frayed" shirts. The Diary of a Nobody
Such jokes tend to reinforce racial stereotypes.
There is an amused glimmer to his eyes and his lips quirk upwards, as if he is laughing at a private joke.
Unless Boomer had been concealing it for some demented reason, some kind of lamebrained joke. Skinny Legs and All
This set me thinking about whether you could have a comedy without jokes.
I was hoping for a fight and a boxing match broke out, to paraphrase an old joke.
And even if this is all a big hoax or joke and you don't end up playing for Houston, I still hate you.
The poignant note lay in a bed of roses on an ivory white casket that featured two joker playing cards. The Sun
Paul quickly became the butt of everyone's jokes.
The dignity of the occasion was lost when he cut in with an unrefined joke.
He used jokes to deflect criticism that he was too old or lazy for the job. Times, Sunday Times
I shared the joke, wondering just what fate might befall me later in the morning.
She would joke about her appearance.
We tried to make a joke of our situation, but it wasn't really funny.
He was the source of many jokes for being overly happy and ebullient.
Kidder follows up with an ad-lib joke: ‘I'll have what she's having.’
His attempt at a joke misfired.
If a joker or deuce is discarded, it is placed crosswise on the discard pile so that it remains visible when other cards are discarded on top of it.
A proof may be messy, dreary, tedious, or look like a joke, but there must be an unequivocal criterion for its validity, even if accessible to but a few specialists.
To a three-card set with two jokers you could add any two of the three missing suits, releasing one of the jokers and forming a closed four-card set.
BILL SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, Carol, it was the gaffe of the week and maybe the campaign when John Kerry made what he called a blundered joke about President Bush, which came out as an insult to U.S. soldiers in Iraq. CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2006
I'm not afraid of a fair fight but this is beginning to get beyond a joke.
SAMSON - Many around Samson knew Bruce Maloy as their town's comedian, a goodhearted, wiry little jokester who was always boasting about hitting it big someday. News | GT | http://www.gadsdentimes.com
They always saw his jokes before he got to the punch line.
In particular, the fact that the pentagon is exempt from inclusion on U.S. emissions makes our participation in this conference a joke. Chinese block U.S. reporters from event
When women do confront sexism, the glib reply is often that it is a joke.
A potentially amusing sketch is stretched into a full-length play that's painfully short on jokes. Times, Sunday Times
It's been recorded that during the course of making this movie you had a bit of fun playing practical jokes on one of your co-stars.
In his act the pill of political polemic may be sugared with a sprinkling of dirty jokes, but it's always there.
I've heard higher flights of oratory, funnier jokes, crueller gibes at opponents, cannier attempts to win applause. Times, Sunday Times
Less belligerent in its audience pandering than its predecessors (less fart jokes, less homophobic subtext, and - thank Jesus - less squawking from Eddie Murphy), Shrek the Third may not give haters a migraine, but its lobotomized sense of comic brinkmanship is still without fun. GreenCine Daily: Shrek the Third.
I could also tell you the tale of the "frappe," but I'm afraid I'm skating too close to the ban on dialect jokes. Annoying and pretentious terms.
He plays his joker role superbly. Times, Sunday Times
It's all very well having a joke but sometimes you go too far.
Jokes spring up where you would most and least expect them-in a frat house bedroom during a blowout party, or at an octogenarian's funeral.
They didn't flippantly joke, they crafted campaigns of division and anger, using catch phrases and terrifying tag lines to batter America into submission. Charles Karel Bouley: Tucson: In the Blame Game, We All Lose
Part of the reason why this series works so well is that it is based in character and craft, not the instant joke or the jerky punchline.
She jokes with teammates, clowning through routines in casual moments, and is involved in a social life that she never had before.
He livened up the party by telling a joke.
Coalition of the willing has become a joke: The coalition of the willing has become the butt of jokes rather than serious criticism. Finally! Al Jazeera launches english site. | Letter Never Sent
It disgusts me that one of the best songwriters of his generation is being treated as the butt of jokes and victim of snide remarks.
She joked, reaching down to give the beast a scratch behind the ears.
Buhner jokes how he used to hear crickets chirp from the upper decks of the Kingdome and the sound of a toilet flushing in the 300-level. USATODAY.com - M's enjoy newfound happiness
The speaker strung together a series of jokes.
Oh, knock it off Alex, I'm really not in the mood for your jokes.
But he still had time to be the practical joker he had always been. Christianity Today
You take it as a joke then think probably it is sage advice. Times, Sunday Times
Some joker keeps setting off the fire alarm.
His fierceness was the family joke when Hilda was small she used to say, "Now, get mad, father, and make little Hilda laugh! The Fortune Hunter
An "Offaly good breakfast" may be a crap joke, but it was true to its word: grilled kidneys, pink at the eye, with Leopold Bloom's "faint tang of urine", a little fried wobbly liver, a round of black pudding, a fried egg trimmed unto the yolk on a piece of fried bread, a plank of crisp bacon and a dollop of their own ketchup. Restaurant review: the Potted Pig
The best way to deal with unfunny jokes is to simply ignore them. The Sun
It drives me crazy that right-on activists who would go nuts if they heard people use race or gender based slurs can happily joke about bogans.
This is one of the first tragic news events that has not been immediately followed by a round of sick jokes.
What part of ‘Congress shall make no law’ don't these jokers understand?
Every joke the comedian made was greeted by a salvo of laughter from the audience.
York was known as a raconteur who loved telling jokes, including to the stone-faced negotiators for the Soviet Union during the long sessions in Geneva. Latest Articles
It's all very well having a joke but sometimes you go too far.
Bears, we joke, will get any stragglers, so we bunch up more tightly into swaying, giggling file.
At the time, you were the butt of some very unkind jokes?
His jokes are always in such bad taste; he can't be funny without going over the top.
They've pretty much dropped social/political style illustrations for lots of washy winter scene's or visual jokes.
As the day progressed, "The Maltese Unicorn" began to metamorphose from joke to viable story concept. Howard Hughes and the Ghost of Better Times
The dignity of the occasion was lost when he cut in with an unrefined joke.
But times change and in any case there's that joke called the Human Rights Commission, who couldn't organise a piss-up at the Dog and Duck, but who think you should let any Tom, Dick or Hari join your party even if they're the wrong fahking colour, and you can't be arsed with the hassle, you really can't. Christina Patterson: What we can learn from the Sikh in the BNP
When celebs do such self-mocking things as this, you have to wonder if they get the joke.
I can share personal memories and in-jokes with him, and compliment him on his fine choice of tattoo.
*** My husband would like it on the record that he had nothing to do with this particular piece of cheese, and the pansy is thereby distancing himself from said joke and any particular wife who may have thought it funny …. Pass the Puns, Please @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy
Many Scots seem happy to go along with the joke that the deep-fried Mars bar is the summit of our culinary achievements.
The younger deputies were circled up by the door to Room 9, trying to joke off the bitter aftertaste of mortality. THE KILL CLAUSE
The art work is primitive but the silly little joke is what comics used to be about.
She paused to chuckle at an off-color joke someone felt the need to share with anyone listening.
He is an exuberant personality and a joker in the Durham ranks. Times, Sunday Times
Some cards include cruel jokes about people suffering despair. The Sun
When brand names become the butt of jokes, trouble could lie ahead.
Of course these jokes are not just jokes; they are a joker's definition of a writer's vocation.
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Never again would she see her mom's sparkling blue eyes when Lillie told her one of her lame jokes, or smell the sweet fragranced perfume her mother always wore.
Even straight men, so often skittish and easily threatened, found his aw-shucks persona and mildly sarcastic, I'm-in-on-the-joke attitude congenial.
Leapor's willingness to make jokes at her own expense is one of the admirable qualities of her work.
We were in the Operating Room doing a case and in order to break the routine of work, we were relating a lot of slack jokes.
Her jokes helped to relieve the tension.
There are some good jokes and the simple story is fair enough as it is.
This is why the NRL is a joke compared to our great game! NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Sheffer -- who knew what makes business men laugh -- pinned his simple faith to three main subjects, convulsive of the diaphragmatic muscles, building up each series upon the inherent humor to be extracted from physical violence as represented in the perpetrations and punishments of Ruff and Reddy, marital infidelity as mirrored in the stratagems and errancies of an amorous ape with an aged and jealous spouse, and the sure-fire familiarity of aged minstrel jokes (mother-in-law, country constable, young married cookery, and the like) refurbished in pictorial serials through the agency of two uproarious and imbecilic vulgarians, Bonehead and Buttinsky. Success A Novel
But where lawmakers once inserted an occasional in-joke, nowadays they obsess over "the most catchy, popular, emotional title they can come up with," sa ys Rep. John Duncan Jr. Congress Finds, in Passing Bills, That Names Can Never Hurt You
In some circles insert joke here –Ed., the slang terms “frot” and “scissoring” are used, respectively, to describe the male-homo and female-homo variants of the more general term frottage. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Four Days That Shook DADT”
The jokester proceeds to counter all of the straight man's objections.
But it should not be reduced to something showing slapstick comedies and lewd jokes.
And when the movement is running a tit - bit pant was a joke.
So it is no surprise the jokes that cut deepest concern racial issues.
That means a venue where the audience doesn't get the jokes and sits there in stony silence as the comedian at the mike goes through his routine. Tough Room
We all laughed loudly when she made a joke.
Take a pack of playing cards and remove the jokers, tens, jacks and queens.
At home he had been funny, sociable, always ready for a quip or a practical joke.
He is full of little jokes, poshly spoken but slyly funny, indiscreet and competitive too. Times, Sunday Times
We laughed dutifully at all his jokes, even the ones that weren't funny.
Mart made jokes about his short stature before anyone else could. Times, Sunday Times
Send us your jokes and tomorrow we'll print the ones that make us laugh most. The Sun
No matter how stinging the remark, the jokester also shares in being the butt of the joke, because joking is the activity, not scoring points. Archive 2007-03-01
Heath Ledger, this opinion not being bias towards his death, changed his acting style overnight to do something incredible in molding the Joker into something you feared and shivered at every time you saw him in a scene. Sound Off: The Dark Knight - What Did You Think?! « FirstShowing.net
The jokes are corny, the language is salty but the exuberance and costumes make it hugely enjoyable. The Sun
The fact that you know enough to make a joke about semiotics tells me you're not as ignorant as you'd like people to believe. THE LAST PLACE
She's too prim to enjoy rude jokes!
Romney spent most of the second half of his term running around the country making jokes about Massachusetts and preparing a 2008 presidential bid. D. R. Tucker: The Impersonator
There's more to this game than scatological jokes.
` ` I'm glad the commissioner is as capable of being changable as President Bush is on his policy in Iraq, '' Jackson joked, adding that if Stern ` ` doesn't give me a $25,000 fine, I'm all right. '' USATODAY.com - Basketball - New Orleans vs. L.A. Lakers
These jokers that have been floating around these boardrooms, they waddle off to their next cup of tea or whatever and that's it.
If this is your idea of a joke, then I don't find it very funny.
And yet it's also just a part of a pleasurable little scene between two performers intent on topping one another with their jokes and gags.
Don't be put off by the jokey name, as it really is a treat with roasts or a heavily flavoured stew.
I was at a ting on Saturday when a mother put on a pair of comedy / joke glasses.
There were those who found the joke offensive, but Johnson insisted it was just a bit of harmless fun.
You're always the one cracking up the group with your jokes and stories.
The courtiers joke and idle and cross their legs in the lacquered wood waiting rooms. Times, Sunday Times
Undoubtedly, by treating the two Kings they served as butts for their jokes, and by supporting the cause of American freedom against the monarch.
Cahill breaks up the music with a string of leftfield jokes and well-crafted prop gags; he's a model-maker when not onstage, and brings a strong visual sensibility that complements the whole package. This week's new comedy
What started out as a convenient short-cut for the writers has become a running joke, at the show's expense.
As the skies over euroland darken, at least the jokes in Brussels are getting better. Eurozone crisis: European Union prepares for the 'great leap forward'
I realize why some folks think Eddie is a joke, but this is a great classic underdog story. 'Harry Potter' star Rupert Grint as Eddie the Eagle: Method acting at its most daring | EW.com
Tangential factoids, unrhymed chiming, and wanton speculation: New York Times book reviewer Michiko Kakutani is somehat, er, somewhat known for her frequent use of the word limn, apparently it's an inside joke among writers and critics. Languagehat.com: THE PERILS OF A FANCY VOCABULARY.
So all week long as we've eaten a scoop here and there, the wink-nudge joke has been "mmf...seeds in...pft". A Tale of Two Sorbets
We exchange news, get updates about the grandchildren, laugh at family jokes and continue to strengthen the bonds between us.
I used to joke that Fortune 500 companies can spend well over $250 million dollars on building a world-class brand, only to hand their social media presence over to "an intern for the summer," and watch it destruct in a matter of weeks. Beverly Macy: Is Your Company Smart Enough for Social Media?

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