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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Slang terms, unofficial terms and humour abounds within Mormondom.

  • Far away from all those, down at the southernmost tip of Scotland, both humour and dialect have a decidedly Irish flavor.


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