Sentence examples for exactly joking from inspiring English sources

"You'll bloody turn up!" He's not exactly joking.

"I could do that," he said, and he wasn't exactly joking.

She laughs, but she isn't joking, exactly.

Maybe knowing that he hadn't been exactly clear, he joked that his head was about to explode.

Experienced comedians know that there's always a chance their jokes won't be well-received, but sometimes it can be hard to predict exactly which jokes will flop -- or, worse, land the comic in proverbial hot water.

Or maybe it wasn't exactly a joke, but some combination of wish and strategy.

"Bad President," the authors write in their introduction, isn't exactly a joke.

Stratemeyer checked the manuscripts for discrepancies, made sure that each book had exactly fifty jokes, and cut or expanded as needed.

I was angrily accused of "not even watching the right thing" countless times, as if that wasn't exactly the joke.

I'm only joking, but realistically, it is exactly like that.

Kissing babies, embracing a distressed young mother and joking with stall-holders, Ms Bachelet, a paediatrician, struck exactly the right note.