Sentence examples for began jokingly from inspiring English sources

At one point in the early 1990's, there was so much American chicken for sale in Russian markets that people began jokingly calling drumsticks "Bush legs".

In the late 1990s, Pat Patterson and Ellison began jokingly discussing a comeback for her, which resulted in Patterson contacting WWF Chairman Vince McMahon about the possibility.

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Just before this season began, Esiason jokingly welcomed Andrew Luck -- the presumed top pick in next year's draft, which would go to the worst N.F.L. team this season -- to that same family.

At a recent meeting with one such group, Mr. Wetjen began by jokingly saying, "I suppose you're here to tell me that I'm blowing a hole in financial reform".

Mr. Richards also mocks Mr. Jagger (whom he jokingly began referring to as "Brenda" or "Her Majesty") as a social climber and swollen head, and says that Mr. Jagger "started second-guessing his own talent" and chasing after musical trends.

He grabbed a pair of dice from his desk, walked onto the floor and jokingly began rolling them.

"As I watched, I jokingly began drawing similarities between these birds' attempts to captivate and impress the opposite sex with dance, and the way strangers try to attract one another in clubs and interact on the dance floor," he explained.

A couple of weeks ago, when the Nets' home struggles began to manifest themselves, Frank jokingly suggested he should visit a palm reader along Route 17.

When Mr. Kroplick, the chief executive of a medical communications company in Manhattan, realized that the race route included Glen Cove Road, "a road I drive on every day," his obsession, as he jokingly calls it, began.

The band comprises the lead singer and songwriter Mark Foster, the drummer Mark Pontius and Cubbie Fink on bass, who came together in Los Angeles in 2009 when the trio began making music that Foster jokingly describes as "if Bryan Wilson and the Aphex Twin had a band baby that grew up in Motown".