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

7. "People, especially young people, realize that his appearance is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, with a fun edge."
The Alphabet Abecedarium is the bibliophile's answer to the botanist's stroll through the garden, being an eminently enjoyable omnium gatherum of recondite, recherché, and obscure arcana and lore about the letters of our Latin alphabet written in a light, conversational, self-deprecatory, tongue-in-cheek style.
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.
Angry, sarcastic, or tongue-in-cheek responses are most likely to be struck from the record.
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.