Sentence examples for a running gag from inspiring English sources

It was a running gag.

"It's like a running gag," said Loftin.

The general manager, Jack Zduriencik, even created a running gag.

Now they are more of a running gag.

It instantly became a running gag: that Lin owed his success to Fields's furniture.

And a running gag about a blind saloon owner is delirious fun.

Her dubious inference that Ben is British occasions a running gag that doesn't make much sense.

Both scripts are flawed by a running gag that the passage of time has tripped up.

Indeed, it became a bit of a national joke; a running gag.

A running gag enumerates the woes of the archdeacon's absent wife.

He seems to have turned your hurt feelings into a running gag — literally.