Sentence examples for beginning of a joke from inspiring English sources
This is not the beginning of a joke.
Doesn't sound like the beginning of a joke, does it?
No, this isn't the beginning of a joke.
It's Ferguson, just walking in, acting as though he'd missed the beginning of a joke.
When the W Hoboken opened in early 2009, it sounded a bit like the beginning of a joke ("A high-end hotel chain walks into the Jersey waterfront... ......).
☝ Gunfy, in his "Laughter Considered as a Joint Disease," holds that the letter "W" is not essential to the beginning of a joke, so long as it comes in somewhere before the joke is over.
It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, and in a way it was.
Right, to be an Irish architect sounds like the beginning of a bad joke.
It sounds like the beginning of a mean joke told on a stalled express train: how many subway workers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Tossed on the turbulent sea Pi clambers onto a lifeboat, joining an hallucinatory gaggle of drenched survivors – a zebra, an orang-utan and a hyena, which sounds like the beginning of a surrealist joke, but isn't.
It sounds like the beginning of a political joke: What do you get when you put Moby, a former White House chief of staff and Katrina vanden Heuvel in the same room?
