Example sentences for: jokes

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

  • I don't think there's anything wrong with ethnic jokes per se.

  • Al's Wedding-related jokes and one-liners provides the usual dosage of in-law bashing and sex-hurrahing, and there are several America's Funniest Home Videos -type pages devoted to accounts of actual wedding mishaps (the comatose bride, Grandpa and the topless dancer, and so on).

  • 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.

  • By taking him and Carmela seriously, by making them neither monsters nor the butt of jokes, the writers grant them dignity and pathos.

  • Recently, the head of the California Bar Association delivered an address at the annual meeting decrying jokes about lawyers, suggesting that a man who had raided a law office and killed some people in it had been inspired or spurred on by the derisive attitude toward lawyers that “lawyer jokes” fostered.


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