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Example sentences for: joke

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

The third-most-visited Gore site, according to Direct Hit, is an Al Gore joke repository, posted on the home page of a GeoCities member and sponsored by the Ripon College Republicans.
HEAVY PLANT CROSSING must surely mean `the biggest aspidistra in the world' while FARM CROSSING recalls the sad pre-war dust bowl joke of the American prairie:
I'm sure Slate readers can fill in their own David Gergen joke here.
Newsday 's Linda Winer calls Redgrave's decision to play Antony's suicide scene as a joke "unforgivable."
I think I have heard these very jokes told about yuppies, lawyers, and Jews--which raises an interesting journalism question: How close can the butt of a joke genre get to a newspaper's readership before the paper won't actually repeat the jokes?