Sentence examples for jokes meant from inspiring English sources

They inspired "freedom fries" and jokes meant to boost American military morale.

Powell's parody of a Scouting manual ("A Guide for Boys") is full of broad jokes meant to fail: "Nuts are always nice, / though they may need grinding".

Over time, the move to more confessional, personal jokes meant comics felt more ownership over their material, and stealing jokes became seen as a terrible taboo in comedy.

They may tell you what the jokes mean!

Like those album sleeves (I am showing my age) with their interminable roll-calls of everyone the artist has ever met or heard of - from awkwardly sincere shout-outs to Mom and Sis, to inexplicable in-jokes meant for buddies ("Freddie K, who got the fox-head?! u tha bomb!").

"This page started as a total joke meant for my friends," she told me.

A bad joke meant a dollar stuffed into a cardboard coffee cup.

Reyes's little joke meant that he hoped her stature in the region might help us avoid trouble.

This was a joke meant to remind the guy to set his laptop on "presentation" mode for meetings, which mutes instant messaging, among other things.

Mr. Rovere's findings proved so persuasive that many readers didn't realize his essay was an extended joke, meant to satirize popular paranoia about the power elite.

You know, the flying delivery drone that some thought was a massive joke meant for April 1st.