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
Tug at the heartstrings or tickle the funny bone; have fun with wordplay or keep it straightforward.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 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
There has to be a heart to every character and there has to be a funny bone.
From Salon • Mar. 22, 2023
Her hand slipped and she banged her funny bone on the floor.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
