humor
Example Sentences
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De Wet maintains an unnerving smile and intensity throughout “Hag,” playing the role with as much humor as it deserves.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
While Mirman appears a bit banged up in the photo, it did not keep him from including a dash of humor in his update.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
As Sam Sacks writes of this posthumously published collection of short stories, “Segal never loses her equipoise, or her sense of humor, in these most extreme confrontations with mortality.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
But Duong still had his sense of humor, he told Nguyen, and the support of his friends and family.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
His worries were balanced by the feeling that the whole thing was nothing but a hoax—a joke being played by a weird old man with a warped sense of humor.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.