jape

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

McDonald and Jim Youngren came up with the billboard as a jape on the prevailing national image of Seattle in the wake of the Boeing bust.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2021

Yes, there is a jape about polyphasic sleep.

From The Verge • Feb. 26, 2020

In any case, this gory, frenetic jape is less interested in quibbling over semantics than in signaling its own insouciant self-awareness.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2018

Morkel initially claims he touched it, so thus umpire Tucker goes upstairs for the run-out, but then the big bowler reveals he was joking - a jape!

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2016

“We were only having a jape, my lord.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin