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Example sentences for: joking

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Stevens' pork is so legendary, says the NYT , that a recent episode of the NBC sitcom West Wing features two legislative aides joking about a $2 million outlay to monitor Alaskan skies for volcanic ash--an appropriation that, unlike the rest of the sitcom, is not fictional.
I kept waiting for Wolff to say he was joking, but apparently he wasn't.
People called each other by their first name; there was laughing, joking, and none of the aloofness or self-importance of the kung fu class.
When Raskolnikov leaves, Tabitha wrinkles her nose and says, "I don't like it when I don't know whether people are joking."
A form of joking behavior visible among Mexicans and Chicanos, with close friends and family, that creates solidarity within the group, but that also allows humorous or satirical discussion of taboo topics that are of importance to the group.