Sentence examples for not only jokes from inspiring English sources

Not only jokes about the team's miserable play, but also jokes about baseball's version of the marijuana monologues.

While she was home over break, they texted nearly non-stop, not only jokes but little updates about their days.

"Hope was a glutton," says Hal Kanter, who wrote not only jokes but also seven movies for Hope.

For Kouchner, the spontaneous gesture and the tutoyer are not only jokes at the expense of French formalism; they are part of his method.

But he transplants not only jokes from Russia, but tomatoes as well, and he becomes suddenly rapt and poetic as he describes their skin -- delicate, pale red -- the juicy plumpness within.

By John Lanchester When Oscar Wilde said that J. M. W. Turner had invented sunsets, he was joking, but he wasn't only joking.

The marriage not only of jokes and non-jokes, but of a fecundity of episodes, of strange storytelling and unexpected lyric corners, supplies for younger readers the satisfying fullness of imagination.

The episode reflected just how difficult a task comedy performers and writers face as they struggle to decide not only what jokes they might be able to tell but even if any joke is appropriate.

Comedy nausea is the extreme incarnation of what my father felt: not only is joke-telling a cheap art; the whole business of standup is, in some sense, a shameful cheat.

"It's not only a joke when I say, 'Thanks to the success of AOL and thanks to Steve, I got my chairman's position at Bertelsmann".' As chairman, Middelhoff began to implement some of his lessons from America Online.

Syntax and grammar are very important, not only for joke timing, but also to get a sense of the character, that he's not too bright.