Sentence examples for wry joke from inspiring English sources

Is one of them a wry joke?

She became adept at deflecting critics with a wry joke.

For the cognoscenti, it is a wry joke about Clement Greenberg's insistence on the flatness of Modernist painting.

IT was once a wry joke that the military was designed by geniuses to be run by idiots.

A wry joke at the time was that the light switch had three positions: dim, flicker, and smoulder.

His name is a wry joke on the part of his owner.

Lichtenstein loved wry jokes.

Sibelius lived to the age of ninety-one, making wry jokes about his inability to die.

Across the generations, characters make wry jokes about the weather, noting that people are "drowning in Bangladesh".

Curtis stands firm, even when their daughter, Elsie (Elvy Yost), makes wry jokes about Curtis's being mistaken for a waiter.

He could make wry jokes and become expansive after hours in the bar, but he wrote with dedicated seriousness, weighing and polishing every phrase.