Sentence examples for partly joking from inspiring English sources

He is only partly joking.

Yu was only partly joking.

And he was only partly joking.

He smiled and said he'd been partly joking.

"My own mother doesn't know what I do," he said, only partly joking.

"I am getting lazy," he said, explaining that he was only partly joking.

But after learning that it meets eligibility requirements (he initially assumed it didn't), Mr. Burwell has submitted it for Oscar consideration, partly at the request of the distributor, Miramax, and partly, he joked, "to stand up for all the minimal scores in the world".

Eventually she abandoned her hobby, partly, she joked, "because I couldn't see a future in it".

"We joke that our market revived Buick from the dead — it's only partly a joke," said Liu Wen, a reporter for China Auto News.

"We joke that our market revived Buick from the dead -- it's only partly a joke".

"Your taste is too expensive for me," I said, laughing, though it was only partly a joke.