Sentence examples for joke form from inspiring English sources

It seemed as if to them Handey is not just writing jokes but trying to achieve some kind of Platonic ideal of the joke form.

Under the shade of a fragrant pine tree in the backyard of a Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, brownstone one balmy morning in early June, a quartet of 4-year-olds is being schooled in a classic joke form by Krista, a black-clad brunette in her 20s with an onyx pendant dangling around her neck and an air of preternatural calm.

While their ability to recognize a joke form by detecting a surprise element is intact, the RH patients are impaired at integrating the punch line with the preceding sentence (Bihrle, Brownell, Powelson, & Gardner, 1986; Brownell et al., 1983; Winner, Brownell, Happe, Blum, & Pincus, 1998).

Just put it in joke form".

I just want to hear it in joke form".

All is said and done in joke form.

Killing Joke formed in 1979.

Bauhaus and Killing Joke formed a few years later in '78.

The album marks the third full-length effort from the band, who got its name from an inside joke formed between band members Danes Thorben Seiero Jensen and Sune Solund following a drunken night in New York City.

Byrnes actually threatened the Soviet foreign minister, in joking form, with the A-bomb at a meeting a few months after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Some sort of sick cosmic joke, a form of divine retribution?