Sentence examples for funny use from inspiring English sources

That's a funny use of the word "joke" — funny strange, not funny amusing, as that joke was not.

The piece, performed with Ms. Sweeney and Ms. Lichau, made imaginative and funny use of the garden setting.

That's a funny use of the word "joke"—funny strange, not funny amusing, as that joke was not.

Being Brooker, it swerves down some gloomy passageways, but there's laughter in the dark – including a diabolically funny use of Wizzard.

Mr. Maltby makes funny use of shorthand communication and the frequent reiteration of the word "stop" in an appealing duet from the first act, "Telegram," when Earhart is stranded in Nova Scotia on her way across the Atlantic.

Helping to maintain an orderly flow of information is a schoolteacher-docent type (Colleen Werthmann), a familiar device in satirical theater that is put to unorthodox (and funny) use here.

Shenderovich was savagely funny, using his puppets to ridicule whoever held power.

As Montfort, he's just as funny, using the softly spoken manipulative tools of the conman spiritualist.

The truth is, the madcap polemicists of the seventies, from Bella Abzug to Valerie Solanas, with her notorious man-hating "SCUM Manifesto," were often outrageously funny, using gonzo cracks to express their anger.

And Tyson's rape because he could fight and sounded funny using big words.

The creatives behind the ad were trying to be funny, using dark humor to make a point.