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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:

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.
"You're seeing the inevitable cashing in of politicians on the Internet," joked Downey, a former 18-year congressman from Long Island, who is now a high-powered lobbyist in town.
"If I'm wrong about Y2K, I'll just check into the Betty Ford Clinic for delusional economists, publicly state that I'm on industrial-strength Prozac, and then ask for forgiveness," Ed Yardeni joked this past September.
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."
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."