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Example sentences for: tongue-in-cheek

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

A day’s drive from Whitehorse along the Klondike Highway, the old boomtown counts scarcely 1,000 inhabitants today, but the national parks system has done a nice tongue-in-cheek job of reconstructing the monuments of its heyday.
Angry, sarcastic, or tongue-in-cheek responses are most likely to be struck from the record.
Meanwhile, the commentariat is divided over Rudy Giuliani's tongue-in-cheek campaign trip to Arkansas (Page and McLaughlin's Mort Zuckerman approve, Hunt and McLaughlin's Huffington disapprove).
An Exeter University academic once speculated, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, that it might come from the Latin graeculus , translated as Greekling with a derogatory flavour.
7. "People, especially young people, realize that his appearance is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, with a fun edge."