Sentence examples for joke given from inspiring English sources
The ephemeral becomes permanent – a mordant joke, given this relentless surveillance – and strongly defiant.
It was a bit of a cruel joke given that Arsenal actually won that final.
"Maximum occupancy 6 people," it read, surely a joke given that it measures less than 2 feet by 2 feet.
The contract began in 1998 as an April Fool's joke, given that Mr. Schwarzenegger is of foreign birth and thus prohibited by the Constitution from becoming president.
Throughout the work the brilliant soprano Claron McFadden piously intoned phrases from Ecclesiastes, as if admonishing the quartet for its vain attempts: no small joke, given the group's precise, lively exertions.
Though it may sound like a bad joke given his failures to reform or revive the economy and his sex scandals, Mr. Berlusconi's return could do a lot of serious damage.
If you've begun to suspect this must be a joke, give yourself a cigar.
Treating Trump as a joke gives his noxious ideology room to grow.
The joke gives off a whiff of bad taste, coming, as it does, from a man who earns more than that every week.
Something arises to make you miss the one person who would get the joke, give sage advice or sympathize, but death has thwarted the conversation.
Her joke gives the knowing audience member a wistful twinge; the playwright is Steven Banks, the head writer of "SpongeBob SquarePants" and an underground hero beloved for his work as the outré Billy the Mime.
