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joke

[dʒoʊk]

Definition:
1. A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter.
2. Activity characterized by good humor.
3. Act in a funny or teasing way.

Use 'joke' in a sentence:

  1. The women laughed coarsely at some vulgar joke.
  2. Most of his jokes were in very poor taste.
  3. Honest to God, Mary, I'm not joking.
  4. He didn't see the joke.
  5. Chapman was the family clown, with a knack for making a joke out of any situation.
  6. The audience laughed loudly at the joke.
  7. She joked that she only loved him for his money.
  8. They often joked about all the things that could go wrong.
  9. I can enjoy a joke as well as the next man, but this is going too far.
  10. It wasn't an easy audience but he raised a laugh with his joke.
  11. She smiled falsely at his joke.
  12. Whoever thought up that joke?
  13. She told a joke to lighten the atmosphere.
  14. I was tired of his cheap jokes at my expense.
  15. The joke is too rude to repeat.
  16. That wasn't a joke.
  17. He always comes out with the same tired old jokes.
  18. You're a joke!
  19. They often make jokes at each other's expense.
  20. Keep your shirt on! It was only a joke.
  21. His first joke got the biggest laugh of the night.
  22. It's no joke trying to find a job these days.
  23. I didn't get the joke.
  24. His jokes were completely lost on most of the students.
  25. Isobel, whose brother he was, had heard the joke before.
  26. She's going out with Dan? You're joking!
  27. I didn't mean that ─ I was only joking.
  28. His friends say he was always quick to tell a joke.
  29. Lysenko gave a deep rumbling laugh at his own joke.
  30. She was laughing and joking with the children.
  31. The trouble with her is she can't take a joke.
  32. He completely missed the joke.
  33. I managed to slip a few jokes into my speech.
  34. I managed to slip in a few jokes.
  35. He seemed to regard the whole thing as a joke.
  36. He carried on telling a joke, laughing his head off.
  37. She had no tolerance for jokes of any kind.
  38. They were sharing a private joke.
  39. He had us all in fits with his jokes.
  40. He laughed out loud at his own joke.
  41. Her precision became a standing joke with colleagues.
  42. Liz meant it as a joke but it fell flat.
  43. That joke's been done to death.
  44. She didn't get the joke.
  45. The girls giggled at the joke.
  46. I didn't find the joke at all amusing.
  47. It's his idea of a joke, I suppose, the scallywag.
  48. No disrespect intended sir. It was just a joke.
  49. He intended it as a joke.
  50. He entertained us for hours with his stories and jokes.
  51. She would joke about her appearance.
  52. This latest pay offer is a joke.