Example sentences for: humorous

How can you use “humorous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That kind of pawkiness is fitting in a dictionary edited and published in Edinburgh and which defines pawky as a Scots word meaning “drily or slyly humorous.”

  • Con Safos: Reflections of Life in the Barrio was one of the early Chicano periodicals published by college students; it printed humorous, political, and literary articles.

  • Other spelled-out bodily reactions range from eructation to fright, though admittedly people sometimes over-pronounce the sounds for a humorous effect.

  • A form of joking behavior visible among Mexicans and Chicanos, with close friends and family, that creates solidarity within the group, but that also allows humorous or satirical discussion of taboo topics that are of importance to the group.

  • St. Johns law professor and Sunday poet Lawrence Joseph's anthology of conversations with New York attorneys is deemed humorous but "pointless" (Rob Long, the Weekly Standard ). Reviewers say Joseph is "good at catching the way people talk" (Christopher Lehman-Haupt, the New York Times ) and his characters "are first cousins to David Mamet's or Eric Bogosian's ranters" (Philip Lopate, Esquire ). But beneath the froth the book offers little insight into the way lawyers work, Long says; it's really about "what colorful New Yorkers talk about when they're trying to be colorful."


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