joke

Example Sentences

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In Complainant A's police interview she had claimed Sir Jeffrey "laughed off" this incident as "just a joke".

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Burke was also the first guy in that Dodgers clubhouse to crack a joke when the team needed it, his former teammate Rick Monday said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

The joke, which revolved around a misunderstanding between a Kurdish woman and a doctor, also drew the ire of the pro-Kurdish opposition DEM party which said it had filed a complaint against him.

From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026

“We used to joke: For as strategic and business- and metrics-focused as we tried to be, it always comes down to tickets,” Nakano said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

“You sort of can’t live in Miami if you don’t speak Spanish,” I joke.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar