funny remark

Example Sentences

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It’s not a one-way street, they can have the odd flippant or funny remark.

From The Guardian • Feb. 5, 2021

The story was started as a rumor�a suggestion on some one's part that it would have been a very funny remark for General Butler to have made.

From Time Magazine Archive

In doing so he must have made some funny remark in her ear, for she smiled wanly as she said: "Grazie, Don Francesco."

From South Wind by Douglas, Norman

By the way, I heard a rather funny remark last night by one of the men.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 by Parrott, James Edward

The relations of the boys and the teachers were fine; as Conijn passed a lad he would pull his hair or pass a funny remark, and the boy would grin and reply.

From A Dominie in Doubt by Neill, Alexander Sutherland