Sentence examples for started to joke from inspiring English sources

They started to joke and laugh with each other.

He wrote more letters and went through more stamps and started to joke that he was keeping the post office alive.

When they were allowed to go on their way, Pistorius and Fresco started to joke about shooting out a "robot" – a South African term for a traffic light.

Looking back at my school reports, I start off as quite a swotty kid, and then when I get to 12 or 13, my teachers start saying: "Lee has started to joke around a lot in class".

Alex's mother, Ellen, was a close friend of Tracy's, and started to joke that Tracy was a College Confidential addict because she was always coming up with tidbits about one school's endowment or the extent of another school's American history department, details she'd invariably gleaned from the site.

He's just filmed a huge movie called The Revenant; he plays Leonardo DiCaprio's protégé, so I started to joke with him, saying, "Are you going to push me to the back now you're friends with Leo?" We went to a restaurant in Shoreditch when he was home during a break from shooting, and when we sat at the table he started talking to me with an American accent.

They start to joke that maybe they should start listening and take the recommended action.

He smiled and started to make jokes.

Then we started to tell jokes, until Furman said, "That's enough talking".

(a) He wanted to have the Vice-President on hand in case he started to make jokes about weapons of mass destruction, as he'd done at a dinner for broadcast journalists.

Yilmaz shrugged: "We have started to tell jokes among ourselves like: oh dear, you caught a shoplifter, you'd better start packing your bags, you'll get transferred for that".