Example Sentences

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“Strangers clowned us,” former Ambassadors player Victoria Henson told me the other day.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

His song Thick Of It, which features Trippie Redd, was nominated for song of the year - despite being something he was "clowned for".

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2025

Morale seemed high among Granite’s troops this week, as a short-range team clowned around despite being on duty long into the early morning hours as Kyiv’s air defenses took down 35 explosive Iranian-made Shahed drones.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023

Watching the way people dressed, absorbing the way people joked, got clowned, handled being the centerpiece of a roast.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2022

Nate tried not to stare at Paul, but he kept thinking of the devilish teenager who’d clowned around on Papa’s ships.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis