Sentence examples for but joke from inspiring English sources

They appreciate the quick subway trip to the city, but joke about the neighborhood.

He couldn't help but joke in the face of the visitor's superiority.

Twitter users were quick to point out the flaws in Arsenal's travel plans, while others couldn't help but joke at the Gunners' expense.

But joke or not, he waited until Spielberg himself started peering at him over a menu, and offering $1.5 million for the rights, $500,000 for the script, before he committed himself.

But joke after joke homes in on their stupidity: "A man from Abdera, seeing a eunuch chatting with a woman, asked someone else if it was the eunuch's wife.

And he is a brilliant salesman, the first cartoonist to make extensive use of newsletters, web pages and e-mail.This ability to be both insider and outsider to swot at his books in the evening but joke with the boys in the back row during lessons is the secret of his success.

On went a beret, and out came a tirade in a thick French accent, which didn't augur well: these words-and-music portraits may be old-fashioned, but joke-accents are a creaky convention which does no one any favours.

But jokes?

Not necessarily good ones, but jokes nonetheless.

But jokes are also a delivery system for the truth.

He was exhausted but joked that he had grown an enviable beard.