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Example sentences for: jokes

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

"Stale macho jokes and formulaic cliffhangers drive this chase-by-numbers thriller on the bumpy road to nowhere" (Holden, the New York Times ).
Ms. Chiaro treats not only these but, when she hits full stride, the difficulties in translating jokes between languages, where even the explanations are often hard to get across, because of either sociocultural differences, linguistic differences, or both.
No doubt Farmer Blight can stand it, and has got used to the jokes produced by a not altogether happy conjunction of name and business.
You remember the jokes: Quayle misspelled "potato," botched the United Negro College Fund slogan ("What a waste it is to lose one's mind"), etc.
There are some fine writers out here, and they are writing drama, not jokes.