Words similar to joked

Example sentences for: joked

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

(At one press conference earlier this year, he joked, "I'm happy to be black--I mean back," and chided journalists about their preference for the Old Testament.)
2) He's a racist who joked on the air in 1986 about Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, "Kill four more and we can take a whole week off."
John McCain, R-Ariz., "has joked that as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam he slept more soundly knowing that Bush was defending the shores of Texas from invasion."
Even that was too much for the hoity-toity tabloid Globe , which said only that "Monica joked about her alleged romance by saying that she was 'special assistant to the president.'"
He had had girlfriends before, but after three years in the desert town of Del Rio, Texas, he joked to a friend, "it was slim pickings."