Example sentences for: jokingly

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

  • And this is my fave: "He blabs and banters and jokingly called an Associated Press reporter a 'jerk.

  • He might say something insightful, or boisterous, like the time he jokingly yelled, "Are you insane?"

  • (It has been said, not altogether jokingly, that if the Japanese were required to pay a license fee for every English word they used, their trade surplus would vanish.)

  • "The bookies entered into the spirit of things by jokingly offering 500-to-1 odds against the PM's wife's fourth child being named Ken and being born on his father's birthday.

  • "I once heard a comedian refer jokingly to the Jewish Mafia," he writes.


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