Sentence examples for joking away from inspiring English sources
But we were joking away, and then he was telling me about his sister's children.
Later you'd see him on the dance floor joking away with some girl you'd never speak to because you didn't understand lacrosse, and lacrosse was all she had to talk about...
"I was such a nervous loser the one time I went on David Letterman that they won't have me back," she said, adding that she spent much of her appearance trying to joke away visible sweat stains under her arms.
Mutterings about Mafia connections have been turned to his advantage as ethnic slurs; charges of nepotism have been joked away, though the Senate ethics committee did find that he had "conducted the business of his office in an improper and inappropriate manner".
News of a woman's death calls up something more primal than regret, if she is a past partner: 'He is trying to joke away that trance men get into trying to remember what it was like entering a certain woman's space.
AFL-CIO spokesman Eddie Vale tried to turn the incoming jokes away from the state of the economy and towards the fight developing on Capitol Hill.
But it does represent a bit more clarity than what was offered this past week at the White House press briefing, when Press Secretary Robert Gibbs -- at one point -- joked away questions about where the administration stood on the potential indictments.
Joke away world if you like.
So I put the joke away for about a year.
Emotional explosions are only a provoking cough, yawn or misfired joke away.
