Example Sentences

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“Of course it’s me that gets the first one after all those guys are joking about it. So fitting,” Muncy said with a laugh.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025

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

Now Mrs. Frisby’s spirits fell again, and she said, almost bitterly: “You are joking, sir; you are not serious. No rat could move my house. It is far too heavy, much too big.”

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien