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Example sentences for: joke

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In the following anecdote substitution of the word Russian for Yiddish kills the joke, though I am sure that many more Jews today speak Russian than speak Yiddish.
But he didn't want a joke.
cannot dance in pain and make God happy What joke is this life you gave me?
The joke we make there is that there is so much money for Internet venturers available to entrepreneurs located in Silicon Valley that there are not enough rat holes to shove it down.
The dark joke here, of course, is the late '60s and early '70s, and the social disorder we are alleged to have inherited from that period.