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Example sentences for: funny
How can you use “funny” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Deemed particularly offensive are the skewed camera angles and choppy editing--"the Big Fat Over-Produced and Over-Directed Oliver Stone treatment" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). The plot--which has Sean Penn stranded in a bizarre desert town and caught between a real-estate mogul (Nick Nolte) and his stepdaughter/wife (Jennifer Lopez), each of whom asks him to murder the other--is called "a primer in hard-boiled clichés" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). Exempted from the general drubbing is Billy Bob Thornton's funny turn as an unhygienic redneck mechanic.
"A wickedly funny examination of obsessive romantic behavior," says the Los Angeles Times ' Kenneth Turan.
Despite protests from the Catholic League, reviewers agree that writer-director Kevin Smith's latest is "a tortured testament from a true believer" (Richard Corliss, Time ). What's more, this "obviously devout, enlightened parable" about a pair of rebellious angels (played by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck) is "mercilessly funny" and "gratifyingly cynicism free" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, and Alan Rickman round out the cast as the 13 th apostle, a muse, and a messenger from God.
A funny thing or two happened in the pronunciation key: the distinction is made between r as the symbol for the initial sound in rim and rr for the medial sound in marry . Although these are different sounds in many British English dialects, they are not only allophonic but in complementary distribution (that is, they never exchange places), hence do not need separate symbols.
How could one not be astounded by the funny logic of, say, meeting one's match by encountering the shoestring of one's shoe: encontrarse con la herma de su zapato?
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