Sentence examples for clowning around from inspiring English sources

Golf is serious at Augusta; clowning around is not appreciated.

This is misdirection, clowning around, on a monumental scale.

"Somebody's going to get hurt clowning around like this".

Some of the children at the back of the bus were clowning around, Andrew said.

Besides Von Trier, another cultural shock jock clowning around was French novelist Michel Houellebecq.

On the living room mantel rests a photograph of Colonel Finken, a consummate prankster, clowning around during a deployment.

At times the show seems like a few actor buddies goofing off — dare I say, clowning around?

But haven't we all seen the Abu Ghraib photographs, showing soldiers clowning around with prisoners they have brutalised or killed?

Anyway, as part of their services to japery and clowning around, those zany Spaniards have been at it again.

They were old band mates, sharing songs and clowning around, remembering a trip they took many years ago.

During a card game, Joe Pesci's Tommy, clowning around, shoots a teen-ager who's slow to serve him a drink.