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

In this charming jape of a thriller, Inspector Henry Cutter is known around New Scotland Yard for having “a weakness for certain exotic cases.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 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

“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