Example sentences for: humour

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

  • His laconic sense of humour is also reflected in many of the wittily irrelevant or tangential photographs.

  • The Dalai Lama also writes in his autobiography, Freedom in Exile , that Harrer had a "wonderful sense of humour" and that "as I began to get to know him better ...

  • Even so, native English-speakers confronted with this manner of stuff will have trouble not sniggering in their saké and—horror of horrors—be asked to explain wherein lies the humour.

  • Lord Justice Peter Gibson ruled that these words could never convey that defamatory meaning: "I could have wished Miss Norman had told the hoary old joke contained in the subject of this libel action as it would have shown that, in addition to possessing the remarkable vocal and dramatic talents which have made her world-famous as a distinguished opera singer, she had an engaging sense of humour.

  • To this day, for example, we cannot be sure whether it was primitive fear or mischievous humour that inspired a famous Indian woman to introduce herself to white people by her nickname ( Pocahontas , which provocatively suggests `Wanton Valley' or `Wild Place') rather than by her demure real name, Matowaka `Snowflake.


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