Sentence examples for really joke from inspiring English sources

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Of course, one might ask whether a boss can really "joke" with a subordinate about such a matter without the latter wondering whether that "joke" was really a tacit command.

Did she really joke about a child dying from a food allergy with the comment: "I mean, what is it with all these children dropping dead from sniffing a peanut?" As the mother of a 9-year-old daughter with a severe life-threatening peanut allergy, I could not believe Ms. Ephron's callousness.

Overall, inmates don't really joke about gay shit or discuss rape too much.

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He said the words in a joking way, but he was not really joking.

"No, not really," joked Heath.

Ford laughs, but he is not really joking.

"All graveyards should do this sort of programming," Waters went on, not really joking.

"Do you have room for some cots in here?" Garcia said, not really joking.

SAN FRANCISCO — The composer Samuel Carl Adams said, not really joking, that the San Francisco Symphony is "partially responsible for my existence".

Once he mastered the song, he kept humming it, and his jokes, not really jokes, were more like taunts.

"It just shows that George's dad is a mad fan like all the Welsh fans, really," joked former Wales centre Tom Shanklin after the match.

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