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Example sentences for: joked

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

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."
Foreigners remain baffled by the Clinton scandal, however: One attendee joked, "The French ask why he hasn't had more women; the Africans ask why he didn't make her pregnant; and the Russians wonder why the girl is still alive."
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."
Minutes later, Black told viewers of CNN's Crossfire that "Microsoft really was created" from "the old IBM monopoly" and that the company relied not on "innovation" but on illegal strong-arm tactics, like in The Godfather . Crossfire co-host David Corn joked that Microsoft even "stole the operating system from Apple."
Although the hijackers slit the throat of one passenger in private, they did not disclose this murder to the other passengers, who at times joked and conversed with their captors.