making light
Example Sentences
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"Djokovic messaged me to say 'you have to pay me'," he said in his on-court interview after making light work of 19th seed Paul, to laughter from an adoring crowd.
From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026
That also meant the usual jokes about Leonardo DiCaprio dating barely legal women, and resumed making light of “Marty Supreme” star Timothée Chalamet’s name and slight frame.
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2026
KFC is taking shots at rivals in its marketing, and in restaurants it is making light of the situation, putting up signs featuring a glowering Colonel Sanders.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025
But faced with backlash for making light of a natural disaster, he later issued an apology in Japanese and Korean.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2025
Then we stretched it out to scrape it, and hung it again to rinse it, many hands making light work.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
