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Example sentences for: punch

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I understand a joke with a Volpe punch line or a joke about the NYPD's sincere efforts to increase minority recruitment (no kidding, this time they mean it) or to make the many other reforms persistently resisted by both the department and the mayor (I'm serious, this time they really, really mean it).
If Arnold charged him, Dolph could feint and punch him away.
Boyle's Helen is a thin dirty joke rescued only by a good punch line (and Boyle, who drops her voice to a husky whisper, looks wildly out of place in this clearly Jewish family).
It ends on a note of blithe miscegenation--just the sort of punch line to send the Camilles of the world screaming from the theater swiping at invisible bugs.
(The girl is so much like a fourth-rate porn actress that the audience assumes she was hired to help the boy become a man--but the punch line never comes.)