Sentence examples for like a gag from inspiring English sources

Oil like a gag on the Gulf of Mexico.

In Mr. Sherman's performance the effect comes across not like a gag but like a bold act of rhythmic dislocation.

Now, they seem like a gag, a whoopee cushion from fashion's prop closet, ripe for an exhumation, and a giggle.

It sounded like a gag, but the statement fits into a pattern that has the look of a tropism affecting some of Europe's most important leaders: a desire to explain away the euro's crisis of confidence as involving external factors.

The effects, perils in outer space and in shadowy corners, quite overwhelm the skimpy script, which is loaded with gibberish uttered with authority: "Stand by to initiate release sequencer". When somebody says something sensible like "we're all in strung-out shape," it sounds like a gag.

An award winner in France, the cookbook "Testicles" (Prospect Books, $40) sounds like a gag gift, but it's a remarkably straight-faced effort - by a woman, Blandine Vie - that combines recipes (lamb fries tagine and bull's testicles pate), droll cultural notes and an etymology of scrotal slang.

The enigma, if you like, becomes a gag.

That looks suspiciously like a gagging order.

There is a visceral resistance, like a gagging reflex.

Sounds like a gagging clause to us... · When was the last time two librarians caused a fight?

And I mean I was told that he was on so much stuff that he wouldn't have known about it, although when they suctioned him out he'd still got, like, a gagging reflex and everything.