Example Sentences

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And, yes, I joked earlier about whether Warsh would wear a purple tie.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026

He joked that he had a previous "career as a gardener", and his wife Diana Fox quoted Christy Moore's Don't Forget Your Shovel as he worked.

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2026

As he joked to a booking agent, “you’ve got to stop all this money coming in.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

When she and her gardener sheet-mulched the front yard with cardboard Amazon boxes she had collected from her neighbors in October, one neighbor joked that it looked ready for Halloween.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

“Feel free to fold and iron my clothes, if you want,” Benji joked.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty