jape

Example Sentences

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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

Things take on a decidedly goofier turn when Robert Pattinson shows up as the taunting French Dauphin, his Pepé le Pew accent and blond wig only making his performance more of a jape.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2019

How much of it are we meant to read as thinly veiled auto-critique versus a wickedly funny jape?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2018

“My lord jests. You will forgive me if I do not laugh. We Braavosi are descended from those who fled Valyria and the wroth of its dragonlords. We do not jape of dragons.”

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