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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:

No, worse than awful: desperate" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Instead of going for the tongue-in-cheek, campy horror style so popular of late, director Jan De Bont ( Speed ) relies on old-fashioned things-that-go-bump-in-the-night scares.
A few reviewers discern "tongue-in-cheek" humor in the use of sex symbol Gibson as a "poster boy for schizophrenia," and declare the film smarter than "other high-ticket summer fare" (Jack Mathews, Newsday ). (Click here for the Conspiracy Theory site.)
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.
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.
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).