funny bone
Example Sentences
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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
Maybe Steiner tickled your funny bone, maybe not, but “deliver a condolence card” conveyed the gravity of the moment better than the similarly generic “going out to settle him down.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2023
As Mary Higgins Clark put it in an interview with Newsday in 2000: “A reviewer once said, ‘Mary Higgins Clark goes for the jugular vein and Carol Higgins Clark goes for the funny bone.’
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2023
Curtis Sittenfeld is one of the many authors who has commuted on this route from the heart to the funny bone.
From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2023
Her hand slipped and she banged her funny bone on the floor.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
