funny bone

Example Sentences

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You’d be forgiven for not really associating the “White Collar” and “Fellow Travelers” actor with having a funny bone, though.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025

Bryce Harper gave the Phillies a brief scare when he hurt his funny bone in a collision at first base in Game 4.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2023

There has to be a heart to every character and there has to be a funny bone.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2023

Scientists have yet to definitively find a funny bone, but they are revealing nuances about the laugh impulse.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2023

Except under pretty rare circumstances, in any crisis, when I was nineteen, my funny bone invariably had the distinction of being the very first part of my body to assume partial or complete paralysis.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger