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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."
(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.)
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."
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.'"
Martin Peretz, the owner of the New Republic , has joked for two decades that he'll only sell TNR for "20 times losses."