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Example sentences for: joked

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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."
And then pointing a finger at me, he joked, "My odor better be off the record."
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."
Washington, D.C.'s top DJ, Doug Tracht (a k a "The Greaseman") was fired for joking about the Texas racial murder . Shock jock Tracht played a song by a black hip-hop artist and then joked, "No wonder people drag them behind trucks."
(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.)