Sentence examples for stop jokingly from inspiring English sources

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The ideas raised by advocacy groups are myriad: could the N.F.L. order stadiums to stop jokingly training their "kiss cams" on two men, for instance?

Patricia Hernandez wrote a beautiful piece for Kotaku.com about how, as a rape survivor, she had learned to stop jokingly telling people she had "totally raped them" in the game Gears of War.

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When he saw Overton, he stopped and jokingly wrote, "I love you" on a golf ball and tossed it to him, Overton said.

(At his campaign stops, Mitt jokingly thanks his wife for agreeing to invest so much of the family fortune on his presidential prospects. Ann Romney's smile has begun to seem a little thin at this point).

That didn't stop him from jokingly coming up with his terms for accepting the position, and telling Leno that he thought he could serve the show and its contestants well.

Poehler and Meyers had been goofing around during the weekly read through when Jimmy Fallon, the future chat show host and then star of SNL, responded to something she was doing by saying, only half-jokingly: "Stop that!

"You'd better stop," said another author, Su Tong, jokingly patting him on the shoulder.

If you are driving through Norway at dusk and see a farmhouse with its lights on and its doors open, do not stop, he warns, only half jokingly.

When Verna Williams called to congratulate Michelle Obama on Wednesday morning, she half-jokingly offered to stop calling her old law school buddy "Meesh" and start calling her something more dignified.

At Web 2.0 this week, Brin was asked about the memo, to which he somewhat jokingly replied, "I stopped reading it after the first 1,000 pages or so".

As Wheatley finished his sentence, Jon Gruden, the Raiders' 37-year-old head coach, jokingly told Wheatley to stop the interview and put on a shirt.

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