Sentence examples for jokingly for from inspiring English sources

Ms. Peruggi stayed put, but once asked jokingly for an ambulance after a day seeding a lawn with a pickax.

The other guests chided Hagos, only half jokingly, for his inability to run an economy, noting that Eritrea's Coca-Cola plant and national brewery were both shuttered.

Before it ever got to that stage, the two men would meet once a week to go over the work in progress and, Lapine says jokingly, for him to "make sure [Sondheim's] working.

Discussing his promise last week to reporters that he would divulge any new cases of anthrax in the White House, he would not take credit, even jokingly, for the "Fleischer doctrine".

Japan's loss of gumption is most visible among its young men, who are widely derided as "herbivores" for lacking their elders' willingness to toil for endless hours at the office, or even to succeed in romance, which many here blame, only half jokingly, for their country's shrinking birthrate.

Transgender ace blogger and activist Micah R. (Photo credit: Micah R). "I had used the term 'asexuality' jokingly for years to describe myself," said Micah R., a 26-year-old transgender blogger and advocate for Gender and Sexual Minorities, who also identifies as asexual.

"But two days later," she recalled, "he came back in and said, 'Girl, you still want that horse?' I said, 'Yes.' " She said he jokingly asked for a dollar for it, but she hung tough, proposing instead that he pay her a dollar to take it.

Since Nov. 7 Mr. Lott, the Senate majority leader, has wished aloud (jokingly, of course!) for lightning to strike Hillary Clinton.

At the National Prayer Breakfast, he jokingly called for prayers to lift Arnold Schwarzenegger's ratings for "The Apprentice".

She had cut her tresses for "Sex and the City" at the time, and jokingly apologized for starting the bob trend.

Wilson said fans were very upset with the "How to be Single" actress for jumping on top of Harry as he (albeit jokingly) motioned for her to get off. .