are joking
- present progressive of joke.
Example Sentences
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The demand is such that people are joking now about where else they could source the precious commodity.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2023
There’s a shot of the truck lumbering away and then a cut to inside the rear of the vehicle, where Gary’s brother and two other boys are joking amid boxes of uninflated water beds.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2022
The kids are joking about what many adults have deemed unjokeable.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2020
You can read books written in the ’20s where the characters in the books are joking with each other about how they found themselves in a murder mystery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2019
“You are joking, Lizzy. This cannot be!—engaged to Mr. Darcy! No, no, you shall not deceive me. I know it to be impossible.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
