Example Sentences

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Only a month ago, President McInnis and Dean Pericles Lewis speculated, half-jokingly during parents weekend, that Yale has been spared only because “Y” came at the end of the alphabet.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

So Harper and Jack started what they half-jokingly called the “Civil Disobedience Club.”

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2025

In which case, he says, half-jokingly, that possible organoid overlords would be easier to defeat because "there is always bleach" to pour over the fragile neurons.

From BBC • May 25, 2025

Morantz urged his son, only half-jokingly, not to pursue the “danger and drama” of a lawyer’s life.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024

Sometimes he half-jokingly suggested that he should have gotten out of football back in Pop Warner when he was at the top of his game.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger