Get to know Joke better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like recreation or humor.
Joke in a sentence
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Joke meaning
- An amusing story.
- Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.
- The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one
Synonyms of Joke
Using Joke
- The main meaning on this page is: An amusing story. | Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness. | The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one
- Useful related words include: jest, diversion, recreation, prank.
- In the example corpus, joke often appears in combinations such as: the joke, joke about, joke that.
Example sentences (20)
I don’t like the joke, but it kills, and I said to him, it’s just like, if you’re Puerto Rican and you hear that in the audience, you’re like, ahhh, but it’s a funny joke, the joke does well.
I’m totally down with that." citation Mayoral campaign For those of them who have seen my candidacy as a publicity stunt or a joke, they should keep in mind that it is no more of a joke, and no less of a joke, than anyone else they care to name.
Kurt Cobain loved his style so much he lifted the gothic opening bars of the Joke’s 1984 single Eighties for Nirvana hit Come As You Are – later, Dave Grohl paid back the creative debt by drumming on Killing Joke’s 2003 comeback.
But that thing made people comfortable with the concept of a joke being a joke.
Douglas Mackey was sentenced to jail for 9 months for posting such a meme, which was the equivalent of the old joke that we should vote early and vote often--a joke told by innumerable politicians and comics.
Footage of Williams performing his joke in 1998 and Cedric the Entertainer performing a variation of the same joke two years later was posted to social media for users to make their own determinations about who is telling the truth.
We don’t actually kick them out it’s a joke, it’s because we don’t like that they’ve flown the best so we joke “we kicked them out”,’ a commenter named Leanne explained.
You think it’s a joke at first, but it soon becomes a realization, this is no joke.
However, his supposedly funny tweet did not got down well, with several users asking him to not joke about things like bats causing coronavirus, for the reason that some of his followers might not understand the joke and take his statement to be a fact.
I always joke that a joke shop is a non-profit organisation.
Jasta explains the band title is a joke from his web series Metal Dudes Doing Non Metal Things, though for a joke it's really catchy.
Unfortunately, we won't know what Harley Quinn said about Batman in the end-credits tease until someone involved with reveals what the joke would've been - if a joke was ever written in the first place.
Watching, you’re in on the joke, whether or not they realize there’s a joke at all.
I would flip it and make the joke before the bully could make the joke.
So when is a joke not a joke?
When it’s time to joke they joke around, but when it’s time to work, they work hard.
Even if you try and joke on twitter – not that the joke in here was funny – the media’s coming after you.
I did not snatch Joke Silva from another man – Olu Jacobs (2 days ago) - Veteran Nollywood actor, Olu Jacobs, has refuted claims that he snatched his wife of many years, Joke Silva, from another man The actor, while speaking with Sun, said he struggled.
I know that's an awful topic to joke about, but at least most reasonable people know it's a damn joke.
In episode three, a joke about ABC's minority-led sitcoms, "Black-ish" and "Fresh Off the Boat," upset a lot of people including The New Yorker TV critic criticizing the joke and the reboot.
Common combinations with joke
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the joke 34×
- joke about 20×
- joke that 13×
- joke but 10×
- joke and 9×
- joke in 9×
- joke at 9×
- to joke 9×
- no joke 8×
- as joke 8×