Sentence examples for jokes take from inspiring English sources

Two of the most memorable jokes take stabs at both sides.

The jokes take on a glib, adolescent rattle, as in a smoking-room where nobody has been smoking for longer than ten years.

Instead of humor driving the plot, and action just being an excuse for more jokes (which is fine with me), the whole mood changes: suddenly we are watching a gloomy, suspenseful, action-filled movie, where jokes take a back seat.

Those who worked side by side with him saw an amiable if intensely shy student with a quick smile and a laconic air, whose quirky sense of humor surfaced in goofy jokes — "Take that to the bank," he said while giving a presentation about an enzyme known as A.T.M. — and wry one-liners.

Trivialise us, make potato jokes, take irreverent selfies at the Famine memorial.

Trivialize us, make potato jokes, take irreverent selfies at the Famine memorial.

Allen, unsurprisingly, believes Boyle is misunderstood and his jokes taken out of context.

MT Anderson's "The Oracle Engine", multilayered with irony and full of sly jokes, takes us, via Plutarch, to ancient Rome.

O.K., she's done, Bobbi jokes, taking one look at Dasha's satin skin and delicate features.

Some jokes took aim at industry outsiders like Representative Barney Frank, the Democrat of Massachusetts who has been an advocate of financial regulation.

"It laughed at jokes (taking cues from voice inflection changes of the other avatars), nodded in all the right places, and dutifully recorded the details of the discussion".